{"author_name":"Giovanni Cappellotto","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[],"epoch":1426558740,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"21520","p_author":"Giovanni Cappellotto","p_authorkey":"20065","p_urlkey":"56872","p_title":"Update about gist-txt: a text adventure engine","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD31","p_time":"1426558740","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"20065","us_name":"Giovanni Cappellotto","us_username":"potomak","event_start":"1417737600","event_key":"26","event_name":"LD31"},"text":"<p>Twelve\u00a0days ago <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/2015\/03\/05\/a-minimal-tool-to-create-text-adventures\/\">I posted about <strong>gist-txt<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0a tool I created to build text adventures.<br \/>\n Since then it\u00a0grew with simple, but powerful, new features.<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;d like to cite some that could be really helpful to create <em>non trivial<\/em> adventure games:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gamedev\/comments\/2yrtb1\/its_the_rgamedev_daily_random_discussion_thread\/cpchn9k\">custom stylesheets<\/a> (both global and per scene)<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gamedev\/comments\/2ynm8u\/its_the_rgamedev_daily_random_discussion_thread\/cpbeved\">scene states and a template engine<\/a><\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gamedev\/comments\/2z7lfh\/its_the_rgamedev_daily_random_discussion_thread\/cpguzrd\">a development environment<\/a><\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/potomak.github.io\/gist-txt\/text-adventures.html\">a directory<\/a> to showcase your\u00a0creations<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>The tool is still underdevelopment, but\u00a0I think it&#8217;s almost\u00a0ready\u00a0and it would be great if you would like to use it to develop a game for the next\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/2015\/03\/13\/mini-ld-58-march-20-29\/\">Mini LD #58<\/a>.\u00a0I&#8217;m definitely going to use it to build a text adventure\u00a0for the <a href=\"http:\/\/adventurejam.org\">AdventureJam<\/a>!<\/p>\n <p>If you&#8217;re interested about gist-txt\u00a0you can watch the repo at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/potomak\/gist-txt\">https:\/\/github.com\/potomak\/gist-txt<\/a>, I&#8217;ll also post periodic updates about its development at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gamedev\/\">\/r\/gamedev<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/adventure\/\" rel=\"tag\">adventure<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/adventurejam\/\" rel=\"tag\">AdventureJam<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/game-engine\/\" rel=\"tag\">game engine<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/gist\/\" rel=\"tag\">gist<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/gist-txt\/\" rel=\"tag\">gist-txt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/minild\/\" rel=\"tag\">MiniLD<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/text\/\" rel=\"tag\">text<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/text-adventure\/\" rel=\"tag\">text adventure<\/a><\/p>","time":"March 16th, 2015 9:19 pm","title":"Update about gist-txt: a text adventure engine"}