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Andrew Plotkin

Another peek at the process of building these games.

I load a version of the layout into Inkscape, and then start marking all the panels and paths with vector outlines. Since SVG is an XML languge, I can then extract all the geometry with a bit of Python.

Then I have to notate all the panel connections. I have a simple text format for this.

An Inkscape window containing a shrunk-down version of The Beyond map. Most of the panels are outlined in blue, with the paths between them highlighted in yellow.
A screenshot of a text file describing panel connections. BloodInitial: direct BloodWhoBeYou/path452 BloodWhoBeYou: (hchoice) twochoice /path453 BloodBoatswain/path454/arrowBloodBoatswain BloodCabinBoy/path455/arrowBloodCabinBoy
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ChukG

@zarfeblong Looking forward to this, Leviathan was a lot of fun.

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Robin Ward

@zarfeblong it’s amazing how much game dev is just moving data from one format to another that’s more friendly for interactivity/real time

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Andrew Plotkin

@eviltrout And the really interesting part, the part that you need the *smart* people for… is coming up with the format.

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