#code stuff

[loveafterdeath-if]

Heyy dear authoor, I dont know if you are taking question on these but I wanted to ask you about twine and coding. I’ve been interested in writing my own IF but vscode and twee and everything i’ve been reading so far got me super overwhelmed and I tried vscode and everything went red and error with templates I tried to use 😭 I was wondering what is your flow of coding the LAD and how did you started. How is story folders works, how do you structure the files and compile them

Anon... I'm shit at this but I'll try to help as much as I can.

Tbh, I touched a bit of everything before publishing anything. Idk how many games I started on renpy only to abandoned them because I was too lazy to continue and because I dunno how to draw and because I didn't know how to code it in a text only thing. Idk how many IF I started and are still gathering dust in my files and waiting to be rewritten properly, because I wanted to use choicescript at first but didn't understand a single thing lmaooo

I think templates are the most useful for a first IF, especially if you dunno anything about coding etc. I struggled a bit with mine at first (still am sometimes).

You also have to be sure to check if the template was updated for the latest version of twine and if you use the same story formats (SugarCube, Harlowe and... I don't remember the others). Make sure to check in the comments of the template you got too, sometimes some have answers to your potential questions.

My coding flow is a mess so anything I say will probably not help you. I knew some stuff before starting thanks to many attempt at publishing IF, even though I never published any until LAD. We're talking about maybe 2 years of attempts. So in the meantime during those attempts, I've watched some tutorials on ytb for exact stuff I needed, searched on google, on tumblr too (btw check @uroboros-if account, they have a lot of helpful stuff, that's where I found out how to deal with the pronouns, etc. and there's also @outoftheblue-if who knows much more than me (and I used one of their(?) templates! And @manonamora-if definitely will help you better if you got any question about twine!)

I think you should ask or search for the exact things you need. I did that most of the time and gathered it all somewhere in my files. Like, if you wanna know about how to code cycle choices, or how to deal with the pronouns of your ROs, or that kind of thing.

I doubt I've been helpful, but do feel free to head to my discord if you have more question about stuff!

[losergames]

BECKYYY!! PLEASE SHOW US HOW YOU DID THAT REALLY COOL NAME INPUT AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!

HI!!!! i am assuming you mean the login screen thing in episode 01? if so i have tried to explain it as best as i can below!

alright, so let's start with what's in the passage for the login screen:

and compare it to our rendered passage:

the login-screen div has some css going on, to make the text centered. as well as a transparent background to separate it from the other text in the passages and give it that screen sort of look.

there's not much going on codewise really, i've used two listboxes and two textboxes. the listboxes are for easy selection if someone doesn't care about imputing a custom forename and surname. the textboxes are for inputting custom names.

the login button is what's doing the heavy lifting! i used the example code from this thread i found a while back - i don't think it is too hard to follow!

in this case, the login button prevents the player from proceeding to the next passage unless the conditions are met. you don't necessarily have to put this in but it'd be silly not to as the mc wouldn't have a name and be labelled as "Forename Surname" lol.

[leumasme]

lol anthropic just released a new model, claude 3.7, and with it a tool to use claude on the desktop in cli for coding projects.

the tool isnt open source, but it contains inline source maps which just contain all the original files

also there's a secret: if you ask it to get anthropic stickers, it opens a secret form and they'll ship you some (USA only)

[idontcsharp]

Mmmm yup it's giving

Graphic design is my passion 🐬🌈

I'm fucking dying at this page someone shared on Bluesky.

Behold, the Embroidery Trouble Shooting Guide that forgot to close its <h3> tags.

[hidingundermicroscopes]

[huellitaa]

"match my freak!" match my sweetness. match my benevolence. match my empathy. match my ability to feel emotions so deeply it tears me apart from the inside out

[strawberrycherrybaby]

[flowersfromunderground]

[the-knife-consumer]

Had a dream last night about a gravity falls game where you play as young Stanley having to sneak around and lie to stay out of trouble with Filbrick. It wasn't really a horror game but it had a lot of horror game-like mechanics and there was a general sense of discomfort the entire time.

The only quest I can remember is one where Stanley gets a bad report card while Stanford gets a good one. Filbrick is out doing business until tomorrow so you have until the morning to try and make it look like you got good grades. There's an option to use white out on Stanford's card while he sleeps and write your name instead.

You could also get future readings from mom, who would give hints on what will happen to you next so you can start setting up lies and stealing in advance instead of scrambling to cover yourself last minute. (If you could figure out what the readings were hinting at. They got progressively more vague as the game went on, going from "I hear" and "I see", to "I feel")

You didn't get to see what happened when Filbrick caught him, it just cut to a game over screen. You could be caught and sent to your room three times before this happens (which ends the quest you're on. Because you failed to lie well enough). There is no way to win. The game would just keep going with scenarios until you lost or gave up

There was a vending machine on the board walk that had warped reflections in the glass that corrected itself when you looked at it head-on

[putmeinamovieeee]

like it’s pathetic

[katietheweirdgirlinclass]

Nate the rizz let

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[peri-bytes]

Did you guys know that deltarune is YTPable now

[oftmtftss]

Eyes without a face...

[suturical]

Metadata borders I've edited/made recently. Creds not needed but are appreciated! Cred if they are added to resources though

F2u borders & frames — ♡/rb appreciated

[redthemarten]

Lil' bro is smarter than you expected.

[prettyp1nkbunny]