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RE: The best tools to create interactive fiction, text adventures and visual novels, with or without programming knowledge
What a wonderful article on the background, and current state of Interactive Fiction. Well done @crypticwyrm!
I have written interactive fiction - on and off - since I was a boy. In 2014, I took the plunge, and entered the IFComp (* https://ifcomp.org/comp/2014) and tied for 33rd place with ' The Secret Vaults of Kas the Betrayer'! Woo hoo ... ha ha
Do you write any interactive fiction you'd be willing to share?
Thanks for your kind words! It's cool that there are so many people interested in IF and writing here on Steemit, really awesome community! I'll check your IFCOMP entry out when I get the chance, haven't really taken the time to play much IF lately but I should, I really enjoy these interactive stories and books in general.
I've only played around with IF, never written anything sophisticated enough to publish. But I do plan to do it eventually. I've been working on and off on a book for a few years and I've played around with turning that into interactive fiction since it fits nicely, it's a fantasy world. I'll probably release them both whenever they are done, maybe even here on Steemit (saw some people doing that, release chapter by chapter, pretty nice alternative to selling a book actually) but that could still be years off :)
I'm sadly not that good a writer, at least when it comes to fiction. Maybe me being a programmer just makes me naturally more inclined to write very technical, I think my stories always sound a bit like a movie script, so I have to work more on that, get some more practice time in. I did write a lot of Harry Potter FanFiction when I was younger and had some pretty successful stories with thousands of fans but I stopped writing FanFiction after two years or so, should have kept at it to improve my writing! :)