Making of "The Labyrinth" using Wool
The Labyrinth was made with the Wool platform in about an hour. Wool includes a language and toolkit for creating interactive fiction and dialogue-based games. A game is subdivided into "nodes" which can be rooms or steps in a dialogue. The most basic Wool game offers a multiple choice style interface where each choice leads to a new node. Variables and other types of inputs are also supported.
The editor looks like this:
Small games can be exported directly with an URL that includes the encoded source code.
Source code for this game is supplied below!
``` title: Start tags: speaker: Narrator colorID: 2
position: -143,303
LD47 warmup game made with Wool
Try to escape the labyrinth!
<> <>
[[Start the game|Room11]]
title: Room11 tags: speaker: Narrator colorID: 0
position: 255,304
You are in a labyrinth.
<> There is a hollow tree stump here, with a ladder going down. <> There is a dead tree here. <>
<>
[[Climb ladder|UnderTree]]
<>
<>
[[Cut down tree|Room11|<>]]
<>
<>
[[North|Room31]]
[[South|Room21]]
title: Room12 tags: speaker: Narrator colorID: 0
position: 525,298
You are in a labyrinth.
There is a sign here. It says: "One P, Two O, Three L".
[[North|Room32]]
[[East|Room13]]
title: Room13 tags: speaker: Narrator colorID: 0
position: 803,303
You are in a labyrinth.
[[North|Room33]]
[[West|Room12]]
title: Room21 tags: speaker: Narrator colorID: 0
position: 253,573
You are in a labyrinth.
[[North|Room11]] [[South|Room31]] [[East|Room22]]
[[West|Room23]]
title: Room22 tags: speaker: Narrator colorID: 0
position: 526,575
You are in a labyrinth.
[[East|Room23]] [[West|Room21]]
[[South|Room32]]
title: Room23 tags: speaker: Narrator colorID: 0
position: 810,573
You are in a labyrinth.
There is a sign here. It says: "LOOP".
[[East|Room21]]
[[West|Room22]]
title: Room31 tags: speaker: Narrator colorID: 0
position: 253,852
You are in a labyrinth.
[[North|Room21]]
[[South|Room11]]
title: Room32 tags: speaker: Narrator colorID: 0
position: 534,847
You are in a labyrinth.
[[North|Room22]]
[[South|Room12]]
title: Room33 tags: speaker: Narrator colorID: 0
position: 807,844
You are in a labyrinth.
<> There is an axe here.
[[Pick up axe|Room33|<>]] <>
[[South|Room13]]
title: UnderTree tags: speaker: Guard colorID: 1
position: -143,634
You found the exit under the tree! But you are not finished yet. Tell me the pass code to continue!
[[I don't have the pass code|Room11]]
[[The code is: <>|UnderTreePasscode]]
=== title: UnderTreePasscode tags: speaker: Guard colorID: 1
position: -147,927
<> That is correct! You may pass. [[Pass|Finished]] <> Wrong code! [[Try again|UnderTree]]
<>
title: Finished tags: speaker: Narrator colorID: 2
position: -146,1213
Congratulations, you escaped!
```