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Introducing Texture | Undo Restart Restore

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Interactive Fiction by Juhana Leinonen. I've been working with Jim Munroe. On developing a new kind of text game authoring system. It's called Texture. And it debuted yesterday at the WordPlay Festival. View/download demonstration video here. The interface is designed for touchscreen devices. It's possible to play with a mouse but dragging the verbs with a finger is the more natural way of interaction. The writing tool looks almost the same as the resulting story, with added authoring controls. Disclaime...

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Tools | Undo Restart Restore

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Interactive Fiction by Juhana Leinonen. Texture is a development tool for touchscreen optimized narrative games. See this post. For details. Estimated full release in June 2016. Vorple is a user interface library for online interactive fiction. With Vorple you can add multimedia, layouts and dynamic effects. Supports Undum, Inform 6 and Inform 7. If you take the first part from an IF title and the last part from another, what do you get? Other projects not mentioned here can be found on GitHub. The Games...

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Modeling with Data

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This is the companion web site for. Modeling with Data: Tools and techniques for scientific computing. You can see that it's half-reference, half-blog. On the reference side, you'll find a page of links. To the book's appendices, source code, and the text itself. Also, the reference page. Includes links to documentation for the various libraries used in the book. On the blog side, see the first entry. Here's my largest project in D3: a visual calculator for your U.S. 2015 taxes. Html head style .bar ...

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Felix « No Time To Play

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Skip to content ↓. No Time To Play. When development IS the game. A programmer and Web developer by trade, Felix has grown up with the Sinclair Spectrum and has played (and coded! Games on several generations of PCs starting with the XT, and lately on J2ME-enabled cellphones. He's fond of turn-based strategies, interactive fiction and MUDs, but has been playing and making mostly casual games as of late.). On Aug.28, 2016, under Miscellaneous. On a rather different note, via Vintage Is the New Old. After ...

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Juhana | Undo Restart Restore

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Interactive Fiction by Juhana Leinonen. A couple of years back I and Jim Munroe. Released an alpha version. Of Texture, a touchscreen optimized interactive fiction authoring system in which you drag and drop words on top of story text. We've worked on the release version ever since and earlier this week it was published at texturewriter.com. There are too many new features to list them all, but here are the highlights:. Basic text formatting options (bold and italic text). Cover page and cover art; the c...

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people « No Time To Play

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Skip to content ↓. No Time To Play. When development IS the game. On Jul.24, 2016, under News. Hello, everyone. It turns out I missed a link last week, but it’s too good to pass up. Via Roguebase. We get this interview with a co-author of Rogue. And it’s a wonderfully refreshing read. And via Vintage is the new old. We learn of a new retrogaming zine. Comes in. ( Hat tip to Emily Short for the link. Oh wait, I know: when the kids of the 1980s grew up. And that’s. On Jul.17, 2016, under Gamedev. You know,...

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News « No Time To Play

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Skip to content ↓. No Time To Play. When development IS the game. On Aug.28, 2016, under Miscellaneous. Hello, everyone. You might like to know that my new book Make Your Own Programming Language is now also on itch.io. This version isn’t as pretty, but it’s more printable, with fewer pages and no syntax highlighting. The content is otherwise identical, and you get the same file formats. In actual news, Emily Short’s RPS column for this week is a presentation of Texture. I’ll end with Hardware Gami...

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Gamedev « No Time To Play

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Skip to content ↓. No Time To Play. When development IS the game. On Jul.17, 2016, under Gamedev. You know, it’s funny. Usually when I’m working on something not related to games, the newsletter tends to be pretty thin, since my attention is directed elsewhere. This week is an exception, and a big one at that. Let’s start with news from interactive fiction, where there’s a new authoring tool on the block. After years in development, Texture. As detailed by Jimmy Maher. Has been open sourced. With a call ...

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rpg « No Time To Play

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Skip to content ↓. No Time To Play. When development IS the game. On Jul.17, 2016, under Gamedev. You know, it’s funny. Usually when I’m working on something not related to games, the newsletter tends to be pretty thin, since my attention is directed elsewhere. This week is an exception, and a big one at that. Let’s start with news from interactive fiction, where there’s a new authoring tool on the block. After years in development, Texture. As detailed by Jimmy Maher. Has been open sourced. With a call ...