Dev Log - Leaning on a Stranger

What Is It?

It's a relatively short piece of interactive fiction using the Harlowe story format in Twine 2. It follows the story of an unnamed lady and a seemingly inhuman stranger as the former suffers the effects of getting lost in a forest for days and not taking a break. Through the player's choices, the lady could choose to trust the said stranger or not as the man keeps telling her to rest.

This is based on a story I've written before and planned for use in Twine, but wasn't able to.

I apologize for not saying any more than that, as I fear I might spoil it too much. Then again, there might be spoilers below eventually.

Log Proper

04-08-2024

Didn't have much time to do that much today because of other things, but finalized the bad ending and wrote most of the good ending. lol I keep thinking I shouldn't be taking this long to do stuff, but this isn't really the only thing I'm doing, creatively, and I am also preparing myself for a full-time job.

As long as I keep working on it, I guess.

04-03-2024

Since I've talked about it a bit on the general log, I might as well start this one from today.

Okay, what I've done so far from the start until today are:

• the game design document (not really much, but it's there. Will likely show it when this whole thing is done maybe, but let's see...)
• layout of the passages for the story
• outlines of the text that will be in the passages (so I don't go on a tangent when I'm writing, because I can and will do it if I give myself the chance and I don't want to do that)
• some notes on the conditions/variables that I have to set for the endings and a certain group of choices (because if I don't work on it now, I'll get confused later on)

The next step would be to actually write the passages' text (although I've done one of the endings already, but I might edit). There's no escaping it now.

This is the structure of it so far, more or less. Sorry for the small size lol I didn't wanna show the passage names.