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Game Jam! I'm hosting a jam on itch for making micro ttrpg's or print-and-play games about keepsakes! It's start March 13th and will run for a month.

Please share!

I have kept this as a secret for a while, and I am humbled to announce that I received an opportunity to make a commissioned game for Indiepocalypse #37! 🎉

Team up with a student activist friend and local shrine to fight the gentrification on your campus or learn about your family’s past in a slight-of-life gameboy adventure “Shrine Rally”.

Shrine Rally is my 2nd commissioned game and I worked with Slothy (@/slothy_amphawa on twitter) who helped me with art & character design this time! (The cover art from the gif above is also done by him.)

The game and its accompanied zine pages are now exclusively available in Indiepocalypse #37 along with other 10 featured games.

Wow I love these questions - Line is so interesting!!! It's a really big topic so I feel like any tips I give will be just barely scratching the surface. It's like deceptively simple...any given line drawing is essentially taking all the information we glean from seeing something irl ie light, shadow, dimension, texture, perspective, etc and boiling it down to the simplest possible visual information.

I think most commonly my line is informed by light source so like. thicker more continuous lines face away from the light and thinner more broken lines towards. and a lot of my spot blacks r simply cast shadows.

here's a more extreme example

Our AGBIC 2022 game, Bleak, is out now!

It’s a daily simulator game where you play as a vampire gardener in a post-apocalyptic world.

It was inspired by the #Famicase cartridge designed by Caspian Whistler (caspianwhistler.com).

📚 The Twine® Grimoire 💾 

The Twine Grimoire, created by G.C. “Grim” Baccaris (Hi!), is an unofficial guide to using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) to customize projects made in Twine 2. The Grimoire demonstrates how CSS and HTML can be used in a variety of Story Formats to fine-tune a game’s appearance and behavior, allowing users to develop new skills and create visually and mechanically unique interactive fiction.

✨ Features:

Both Vol. 1 & Vol. 2:

Are 100% free to download

Discuss both Harlowe & SugarCube Story Formats

Provide screenshots and examples of code with each tutorial

Contain sets of exercises to try yourself at the end of every tutorial

📖 Volume I

The first volume of the Twine® Grimoire is geared toward common features that many first-time users are interested in working into their projects, including text styling, link styling, and passage backgrounds.

84 pages

8 sections, including 6 detailed tutorials

Free PDF download

Covers topics like using the Story Stylesheet, tag-based styling, how to organize files, and more

📖 Volume II

The second volume of the Twine Grimoire® focuses on more intermediate and advanced ways to customize a project’s stylesheet. These tutorials are suitable for intermediate users who are familiar and confident with topics and skills introduced in Volume 1.

63 pages

6 detailed tutorials

Free PDF download

Covers topics like creating custom buttons and CSS-based animations, using cycling links, customizing SugarCube’s UI bar, and more

📝 Other Helpful Resources

Twinery.org

Twine Wiki

Twine Cookbook

TwineLab

Twine 2 Guide

Twinery Forums (Read-Only)

Twine Q&A

Intfiction.org Twine Category

More resources, including links to Story Format documentation, can be found in both PDFs.

💻 About Twine®

Twine® is an “an open-source tool for telling interactive, non-linear stories” originally created by Chris Kilmas in 2009; it is now maintained by “a whole bunch of people at several different repositories,” per Twinery.org. I am not personally affiliated with its development process.

Twine is a registered trademark of the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation (IFTF), which “helps ensure the ongoing maintenance, improvement, and preservation of the tools and services crucial to the creation and distribution of interactive fiction, as well as the development of new projects to foster the continued growth of this art form.”

🔮 Supporting the Grimoire

The Twine® Grimoire project is made possible by the support of my patrons on Patreon, who enable me to take the time to write these tutorials, revise them, and compile them into free PDFs. All patrons pledging $2 or more gain early access to the first draft of each tutorial as I write it, and also have the opportunity to make tutorial requests every month.

In the interest of making this resource as accessible as possible to many users, the Grimoire will NEVER have a minimum donation required to download. However, if you would like to support my work, you can do so by either donating on itch, leaving a rating or comment on itch, or pledging on Patreon.

✏️ Enjoy!

I hope the Grimoire will come in handy for my fellow Twine wizards out there!

What if fan-art:

Here it is! After years of development, Super Lesbian Animal RPG is releasing NEXT MONTH! December 2022! For now, enjoy the trailer! You can add it to your wishlist on Steam, or add it to a collection on itch.io.

About the game:

Melody Amaranth is a kindhearted but meek transgender fox from the small town of Greenridge. Recently, she made two important realizations about herself. One: she's deeply in love with her adventurous best friend, Allison Goleta. (The feeling was mutual.) And two: if Allison has her heart set on becoming an adventurer, then maybe Melody could join her. As a healer. It all seemed perfect. And then things got weird. Super Lesbian Animal RPG is a classic-inspired turn-based roleplaying game about love, anxiety, and fighting funny looking monsters in dungeons. It follows the stories of Melody, Allison, and their friends Claire (a sarcastic, rule-bending witch) and Jodie (a dependable, somewhat motherly knight). Over the course of their journey, our inexperienced heroes will meddle with forces beyond their control and find themselves responsible for the fate of their hometown. They'll also fight some spherical frogs, travel to a forgotten land in the sky, befriend a robot or two, and piss off the local librarian. But that should go without saying.

The cold can sometimes be cruel… Cruel enough to rob the lives of their future.

After the explosion of frozen star Tomo-E, our protagonist, the young engineer Phi, is put in the situation. With the frost blast meant to reach the station H1-MA, find a way to survive in any means.

Escape From H1-MA Station is a Sci-fi Visual Novel with Time-Resource Management System. Help the protag escape from the station in 30 days!

Featuring:

Manage your time and resources

Buy a spaceship ticket or Build your own rocket

3 NPCs whose fate you can determine

Multiple Endings

Writing by @skyecrandall​ Character Design & Art Assets by @dotoriii​ Programming & UI by @nuttatulipa​

You can download the game (Windows/macOS) on itch.io -> HERE