NaNoWriMo Text Adventures

[squirmelia]

NaNoWriMo starts soon, and as I've been reading Twisty Little Passages, I'm vaguely contemplating writing some kind of interactive fiction/text adventure type thing for it.

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Comments

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

These days there are plenty of programs (like the old "graphic adventure creator") to help you with them; for an old style text adventure I'd write a little background and some ideas, then draw up rooms and link them, then decide puzzles and add in monsters afterwards as needed.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I suppose to reach 50,000 words, the rooms might need lengthy descriptions? Or maybe there will just be a lot of rooms. Hmm. I haven't really concluded how I'll make it count yet.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

You're going for more of a "Choose your own adventure" sort of thing here really, by the sounds of it, like "Warlock of firetop mountain" etc?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Don't really want it to be choose your own adventure. Maybe I'll just write lengthy help files or something. I guess I will just see how it goes, and find some way to up the word count!