书 (Demo)

SWON Afterclass Yaptime Notes:

***READ ONLY AFTER PLAYING THE GAME***

• this is inspired by my dislike for the DMV unfortunately
• twine is difficult for me because tell me why i spent like 5 hours trying to change the ui to have a sidebar with a menu and being ultimately unsuccessful with it
• all those weird strokes on the very first page?  kinda weird, right?  I'm gonna say that it's an abstract version of the DMV, but it was instead a maze I made because I wanted to make an interactive maze in-game.  I was able to make it interactive, but I couldn't implement it in game because despite everything I did to make the maze smaller, it kept getting cut off the screen, resulting in what you see on the first page
• improvements i wish to implement
• the itch page...I made sure to engage in all the aspects of it (besides screenshots because I don't see how this current version would have any intriguing screenshots for viewers to get hooked to)
  • the embed window is long because the text kept getting cut off...another case of my chronic yapper-ness
• i originally wanted to include an interactive tic-tac-toe and interactive maze, but I couldn't due to time constraints.  i WAS able to figure out how to do these outside the main game file, but, something with the page setup on the main game file/code kept messing up the layout and in the end I had to cut those aspects out because thyyey made absolutely no sense with the layout
• i know that the beginning context section is long - it's longer than the actual gameplay.  while this is due to time constraints, i probably should have focused more on making the gameplay for intriguing and interactive rather than all the build-up towards the gameplay
• i want to make the endings better: i knew i definitely wanted fire, rain, and gaslighting grandma as some of the ending options, but I feel like all the endings were very unsatisfactory
• i would most definitely add images into this game (i want to make book covers for the main three stories)
• for the narritive, it would slowly be revealed that your parents died in a car crash...i didn't quite get that far but...in an improved version it would have that.  yes.
• shu MENTIONED!!!
  • as you may have noticed, this game series is shu-related.  who is shu?  a very cool person
    
  • 书 is written as shū in pinyin, and it is pronounced the same way as shu heheh (the extent of what I learned from a year and a half of chinese classes sob...i need to brush up so I can understand more tea during my walks)