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A jam submission

Text-Based Game MakerView project page

Simple tool for creating text-based adventure games by YAML files and built-in editor.

Submitted by stmn — 7 days, 8 hours before the deadline

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Text-Based Game Maker's itch.io page

Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
How original/innovative it is	#9	3.800	3.800
Overall	#19	3.300	3.300
How much I could potentially use it in the future	#20	2.900	2.900
How nice/fun it is to use	#27	3.200	3.200

Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Comments

Ciber_TurtleSubmitted351 days ago

This seams to be a super powerful engine. Although I found the default font size a bit too small.

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Flowgrid

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Inkus GamesSubmitted353 days ago(+1)

Nice text adventure engine. Not can’t be sure I know all the features more documentation would be helpful for that.

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Infomancer Forge

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GarageGamesSubmitted354 days ago(+1)

dang this is off the chains awesome

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TetriTiler

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Kinami Imai 今井きなみSubmitted354 days ago(+1)

Amazing tool! 🙂

The format looks very logical, I could imagine using it being used for something more complex too!

I think if you added exportable YAML files, and maybe HTML, so that adventures could be directly uploaded to itch.io, it would make this very useful for developers of old-school text adventures!

I liked the included mini-adventure as well!

Overall, very good job! 😄

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Dialog Editor

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stmnDeveloper353 days ago(+1)

Good point. Exportable standalone project files as described will be available very soon.

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LéonHost355 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

A very promising game engine with a clean and pleasant interface and a lot of capabilities. It still needs a documentation (learning by example is good but it should be in my opinion in addition to a more abstract doc) and it should also have a simple way to export and load the yalm file on the disk and a web export so that people can publish their games ! I will stay tuned to see how it evolves!

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stmnDeveloper354 days ago(+1)

Thanks for the constructive feedback. I agree with everything and I should be able to add these things easly (only need to find time). Of course I know that console-kind games are not popular but I believe that a few people on a planet could create something with that kind tool. ;)

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MistermSubmitted355 days ago(+1)

Interesting tool. I did try your game and I got attacked at the end.

Good job.

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MRSpriteSheet From AI

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blankRiot96Submitted356 days ago(+1)

Really cool, haven't seen a tool of this kind before

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Axterm

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