{"id":1513,"date":"2012-08-24T07:16:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T11:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2012-08-24T07:16:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T11:16:06","slug":"inklewriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1513","title":{"rendered":"Inklewriter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my earliest games made in good old GW-BASIC were text-based interactive stories; choose-your-own adventures, but a little more complex than the in-print books; not that much more complex, I was only ten years old or so, but being able to use the magic of &#8220;variables!!&#8221; the story could remember player names and past choices.  Unfortunately the games are now lost&#8230; so you&#8217;ll just have to trust that I was smart enough to do that when I was ten.<\/p>\n<p>The point is, I enjoyed the art of interactive fiction.<\/p>\n<p>So I recently read about an online program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inklestudios.com\/inklewriter\">Inklewriter<\/a> which allows storytellers to quickly and easily write and test interactive fiction.  I used it to quickly write a simple dialog story called <a href=\"http:\/\/writer.inklestudios.com\/stories\/dmzp\">The Movie Deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to try to write something more serious with it at some point.  It looks like they&#8217;ve recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inklestudios.com\/archives\/713\">announced a contest<\/a> that I think would be fun to try.<\/p>\n<p>So, go have fun with it.  And let me know about your work if you&#8217;d like me to check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my earliest games made in good old GW-BASIC were text-based interactive stories; choose-your-own adventures, but a little more complex than the in-print books; not that much more complex, I was only ten years old or so, but being able to use the magic of &#8220;variables!!&#8221; the story could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5,263,4],"tags":[581],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-op","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}