Oooh. Solid advice, thank you so much!!
First, thank you!
And, in all honesty, I haven't even thought to try. This was a project for the game writing class in my degree program and I had no idea how complex and difficult game writing was. Massive respect for all of it now.
And in truth, since graduating, there hasn't been a ton of inspiration this year. I've heard it called Covid Brain. Some of my writing co workers and artists are struggling as well. I'm actually really beating myself up over it, as I feel I'm languishing away and not using anything I worked hard to learn.
So, there you go. A real answer. But I'd actually love to keep going.
This game idea was actually based on a real life story, lol. It all happened to a friend of mine when he missed his opportunity.
Well, if you have any more text games, I love writing, so I could help with that form of thing. I am currently working on a very long interactive fiction game, (I can't really code, so completely with twine.) about a boy who goes from tending a farm to saving the world but becoming a hated villain in the process, and also have a few other ideas. So, want inspiration? How about, for shorter things you could do "A night in the tavern." Where you are a commoner in a tavern, and one night an adventurer, or adventuring party comes, and you get to speak to them. Do they cause trouble, Or do they bring fortune? Or maybe "The trifles of an alien." Where you come to earth, and have to deal with no one trusting you after all of these alien movies have come out. Then for longer, how about "The last cities." Where you are in command of a force of either zombies or soldiers, depending on the setting, and must take over the last cities left to conquer. Finally, and idea for where you have to search for someone you met earlier in the woods. Are they a friend? An enemy? Or something else? The players actions will decide.
If you want any help with literary sections, I love writing, so I would be more than happy to have something to write about other than school subjects.
Alright! Well glad to hear I helped you get back to coding! I get tons of ideas for things like that- I am a very literary focused person- and I must say, it feels nice to voice some of the ideas I have. Twine is very simple, when you first open a text box, it shows some basic commands, I am not very well versed in it myself, but generally you first have your main text, the you do [[Choice/continue/this is what the player sees to click on->result/next box/the name of this is the name of the box this takes you to]] so basically, you have what the player sees to click on, the it has the arrow, ->, to take you to what the box will be named, and you of course can have multiple options. I think that since I can't really do much coding, whatever game you decide upon, we can share a google doc, and I type down all of the info to insert for the Twinery? Like, paragraphs, choices, and whatever else you might need.
Ren faire? Renaissance fair? I mostly do fantasy ideas, but from this game I thought it would be better to suggest modern stuff! I don't really like changing out humans to animals, but I suppose I always can. And for time travel? It interests me, but no haven't done hat yet. But I can write a story for pretty much anything, just need a premise and to know what you want roughly. Also, something to note, I only write PG stuff, not even any cursing. Just if you were curious.