Even great stories start from humble beginnings. In the first session of a new round of Coding Games with a Story, some of our authors (9-11 year olds) successfully got a story up and running with a scene, background music, images of the person speaking... and a decision point.
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![VAR speaker = "Narrator"
VAR scene = "Cafe"
VAR music = "Piano"
-> start
=== start
~speaker = "Elly"
What would you like to drink?
+ [Coffee] -> coffee
+ [Tea] -> tea
-> END
=== coffee
~speaker = "Eddy"
I'd love a coffee!
-> END
=== tea
~speaker = "Eddy"
A tea, please!
-> END](/data/uploads/01KADR90Y8MARZA72STN46Z1W2/images/01KJ5RCTX4KXVKKD97EN8A0PG9.png)
VisualInk now lets you swap seemlessly between cinematic and our new illustrated screenplay format while you're playing your #visualnovels . This allows readers to quickly check the history of the story so far, and authors to view parts of the story with context. And it just looks pretty snazzy (in our opinion).
You can play through the exercise that's shown in the screen shot here: visualink.mavnn.eu/published... . Use the menu at the top to switch between the two types of view.
VisualInk now lets you swap seemlessly between cinematic and our new illustrated screenplay format while you're playing your #visualnovels . This allows readers to quickly check the history of the story so far, and authors to view parts of the story with context. And it just looks pretty snazzy (in our opinion).
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Starting next week, we'll be hosting a writing club for under 18s doing something a bit different: writing interactive fiction. This is a space for people who want to actually write a piece of interactive fiction, so it does assume you'll be putting in time between sessions so that we can all share our progress each week.
More details at thinkersmeetup.com/service-p...
Prototyping a new view for allowing readers to view their history, and authors to quickly got an overview of the script.
It's not quite ready for release yet, but it is starting to get there. Just needs a bit more love to get it formatted more like an actual movie script, and to include scene change markers for when the background changes.
Know someone 9-18 who loves stories? Week starting 23rd February is the next round of "Coding Games with a Story", a five week introduction to creating #visualnovels using our very own VisualInk. We're also hoping to host a writing club for under 18s who have decided to build a full game now that two cohorts have already gone through and enjoyed the course (writers using other #interactivefiction tools are also welcome to join the writing club).
Read more about the person leading the courses and their content at thinkersmeetup.com/scholars/...
