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On 5/19/2025, I added about another 5Kb, a mixture of prose/twinescript.

As of 18th May, 2025: I gave updates previously the 16th and the 17th of this month. Progress is strong on my current WIP, A Campfire Tale. This evening, I broke 10,000 words and we're at 48 passages. A lot of those passages contain considerable prose, twinescript, or a mixture of both.

This afternoon and evening I've spent time fleshing out inventory manipulation. It's semi-puzzlely in that you most combine some items to create new items, and then must make use of some of those new items to escape the initial chamber in which you were deposited after the alien ship tractor-beamed you.

Altogether today, I increased the game contents by about 10 Kb.

I recently reported on my blog about my WIP, A Campfire Tale. That was two days ago. Since then, I've made significant progress. In the past two days, I've added about 7Kb of a combination of narrative and Twinescript.

The last forty-eight hours' work has been on I guess what could be called my first puzzle of the game (and, indeed, or anything I've ever coded). Basically, I'm trying to set up some inventory-manipulation to make the player feel clever while advancing the story.

So far, I've implemented examining items, and I'm working on item combination logic.

I'm at 41 passages on my Twine WIP, "A Campfire Tale", and currently I'm spending some time building an Action/Object system in passage EscapeFrom.

Here is some code from that passage. To date, I've got it working to show appropriate long descriptions for objects that I select with a hyperlink click:

Primary Twine story formats can be downloaded with this link, or with this one. Here is another download link.

And of course I must link to the three most important resources (ChapelR's Tweego, Chris Klimas' Twine, and Visual Studio Code. These are bundled together and can be downloaded here and here and here.

Hiev's browser storage tool is a must-have. The same author produced a nice collection of sample code, which I make downloadable here.

Here is Gwentastic's Twee File Splitter, and here is another download link. I've also backed it up to my OpenDrive and it's located here on my Onedrive account.

Finally, my go-to SugarCube template for getting new projects initiated.

dev.tw
        passworded access to Developer Notes
dorn_head_foot.tw
        contains header and footer passage 
          for use with hbar and bbar tags\
dorn_intro.tw
        contains passages comprising the Intro to the game/story
dorn_2.tw
        contains ?# passages that form the beginning of this hyperfic
dorn_last.tw
        contains scripts and special passages
        contains code for the playtime macro
        contains code for the fade-in macro
        contains code for hashing to enable passwording
        contains code to implement [nosave] tag for passages
        contains Config data:
          maxSlotSaves = 3
          maxStates = 50
          saves.isAllowed conditions
        contains code to check for [noreturn] tag, for menuing
        contains code to add visits to passage(s) programmatically 
               during initialization (for testing)
        contains code in PassageReady to track total number of passage visits

I have figured out how to use Tweego not only to produce Twine HTML stories, but also to produce proofing HTML in both the Illume (by Michael McCollum) and Paperthin formats.

I've also archived a copy of the Illume proofing format for Twine here on my Microsoft Onedrive account, and here on my OpenDrive account. Christy Tucker has an article on how to use this format at this page on her website.

Paperthin, another proofing format (and more austere than Illume) can be found on the author's Github, or here on my Onedrive, or here on my OpenDrive. Here is a sample of Illume's output.

Dotgraph is a proofing format with nice colored-nodes showing the arrangement of your twine passages. It can be downloaded here, or here, or here.

To add DeMarco's DotScap proofing format to Twine 2, we'd use https://mcdemarco.net/tools/scree/dotscap/format.js

Chapel's poof proofing format can be downloaded here, or here.

To add the PrePub format to the desktop version of Twine, we'd use this link to the format. PrePub is able to flatten simple twines to markdown in preparation for converting them to ePub format via Pandoc.

We would produce the markdown file via Twine or Tweego, and then convert to ePub in Pandoc like so:

pandoc -o my-story.epub prepub123456789.md --epub-chapter-level=2 --toc-depth=1 --css=prepub.css

I have archived a functional storyformats folder from Tweego here, here, and here.

Here are samples of the Illume, Paperthin, and Poof proofing formats.

You can use this installer to install Tweego 2 on Windows (or here on my Onedrive). There's another copy of the installer here. For my Tweego installation, I chose to put it close to the root of my main drive:

Notice the yellow-highlighted storyformats subfolder shown in the above screenshot.