invicticide @invicticide@mastodon.gamedev.place

So here's something I've been very, very bad at self-promoting: http://fractive.io/

Fractive is my open-source tool for writing hypertext games using Markdown!

It's a little bit like Twine, but for people who'd rather just write straight-ahead instead of fussing with the node graph.

A local friend of mine just launched Doodle Date on Steam. It's a game where you draw your own characters, and then date them! It's ridiculous and endearing and y'all would probably love it. http://store.steampowered.com/app/830980/Doodle_Date/

I just discovered that FMOD has support for HTML5 and that feels *completely* bonkers to me https://www.fmod.com/docs/api/content/generated/platform_js/basics.html

(but also really rad)

Hm, much like in TweetDeck, it looks like the "description" tag doesn't get used here. (It does get used on twitter.com for expanded tweets, so it must be hooked up correctly...)

Today I learned that OpenGraph is a thing, so let's see if my implementation of it actually worked...

http://fractive.io

@Gargron Does Masto support link preview cards, like Twitter/etc.? I'm trying to find some documentation about what meta tags to put on my site but I'm not finding anything that seems relevant. (But I'm also not sure if I'm searching for the correct term.)

Wow, this took off a little bit while I was asleep. 😨

Thanks for y'all's interest! If you end up using #fractive, don't hesitate to throw me some feedback. Up until now there's only been two of us even *aware* of it, so I'm certain there are opportunities for improvement. 👍

It's still a weird thing to me about Mastodon that I can block an entire instance, but I can't *follow* an instance, only individual accounts on it.

It's been kind of a neat little side project for me to learn how to do stuff in a web-style environment, after so many years working in "traditional" #gamedev.

Figured I should probably tell... anyone... about it... ever. 😂

You can also easily add custom game logic with Javascript if you want (though it's not at all necessary to make a normal hypertext game).

And it's extremely extensible; for example, @nqn has integrated phaser.io with it to do some hybrid hypertext + graphical stuff.

So here's something I've been very, very bad at self-promoting: http://fractive.io/

Fractive is my open-source tool for writing hypertext games using Markdown!

It's a little bit like Twine, but for people who'd rather just write straight-ahead instead of fussing with the node graph.

This is the VR park, in case any of y'all randomly find yourselves in Dubai and want to play the raddest co-op #VR experience ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZH1f249lN8

The last thing I made is a four-player co-op same-space VR adventure called The Raft:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkjDfC-T__Y

And it's rad as hell, but right now you can only play it at one specific physical location (a VR park in Dubai) so it's... kind of difficult to share with people. :P

One of the things I hate the most about doing #gamedev for someone else is not being able to talk about the cool shit I'm working on because of NDAs.

This is especially vexing when the product will have limited release, targets a primarily offline audience, etc. where my own social circle basically never gets to see what I'm working on at all, ever. ;_;