A downloadable game for Windows

A short game made in a day for JamesBBarrow's birthday!

USE ARROW KEYS TO NAVIGATE THE MENU, AND SPACEBAR TO SELECT AN OPTION

The game's menu will slowly grow more options as you explore the level! Be sure to keep an eye out for new menu options to click!

This game has no audio, so bring your own music!

About this project

THIS GAME IS A PROOF OF CONCEPT

I already had the prototype for this text engine lying around, an old project I hadn't touched in a few months. I wanted to make a tech demo for the engine, although it is still incomplete. James's birthday was the perfect inspiration to publish something small with it!

The interactive fiction engine is written in LOVE2D. It parses YAML files that are structured in a particular way to construct text adventure stories! It is still very incomplete and basically exists as a proof of concept for now, but I hope to add a lot of both interactive fiction and accessibility features, including text-to-speech, screen reading devices, a web interface to more intuitively create stories, and more!

Goals

  • interactive fiction engine with an intuitive YAML file structure to make IF authoring a breeze
  • assisted reading - configurable fonts, colors, text blackout bars, text-to-speech, screen reader support, etc
  • a way to share your stories quickly with other people who use the engine (drag and drop the story files as a zip file onto the game window...?)
More information

Download

Download
bohthday.zip 4 MB

Install instructions

Download the .zip file, and extract all of the files. You can move the folder anywhere, but do not move any files out of the extracted folder - they are necessary to run the game.

Double click `bohthday.exe` and have fun!

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