finally, a breakthrough

I've been writing a game. Not anything fancy - I definitely don't have the programming skills as of right now to make anything beyond branching plot-reliant narratives. But I've been procrastinating making any progress on my game for weeks because I'd written so many Twine passages already, and the plot was souring into some kind of slosh, a combination of my boredom reflected back to me in dull dialogue prompts and the boring game mechanics. I had created an unusable slosh.

However, a gift in the form of learning that you can't import files from the app version of Twine as html files and therefore rendering whatever I wrote as essentially useless. So, I switched to the web version with the solemn vow that I'd always save my game to files every time I stopped editing it (in case, for whatever reason, my cookies cleared themselves without my knowledge. Which doesn't really happen, but I have an irrational fear that it will), and I've started again.

This is the best decision I've made in the entire duration of my game making and I've gone back and developed all the miniscule details that I felt were lacking - like the personality of the main character, who guided entirely through dialogue prompts whilst having the dullest and inconsistent personality of any character I've ever created, and also revising my coding knowledge to add some fun little game mechanics to spice up the gameplay and further my narrative.

I don't really talk much about my game creations - or any of my creations, really, because this is more of a 'talk about my feelings talk about things that I feel internally passionate about, not what I do' kinda blog. I think I'll start integrating this kind of update into my blog occasionally, but if you fancy hearing more about my actual creations, I have a sister blog that I will link down below. I mainly talk about my game there, because I barely do anything else right now. At least I'll be excellent at programming by next year.

Visit my sister blog, At Least Half Baked: Genesis, here.

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