illuminesce

Queer indie dev. Kinda feral.

I co-run a video game cooperative called Studio Terranova with @mabbees.


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liananana
@liananana

Narrat ๐Ÿ€ is a game engine I created to easily make interactive fiction games (narrative RPGs, visual novels etc) for desktop or browser. Iโ€™ve worked on this game engine for some time, mostly to help friends make their games. Itโ€™s been used on a few small games, and some bigger ones in progress. It was originally made to create game mechanics similar to what you can see in Disco Elysium

๐Ÿš€ If you want to try it, get on the website itโ€™s very quick

I want more people to try this engine so please try it or help people know it exists โค๏ธ

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illuminesce
@illuminesce

New game engine for interactive fiction? Don't mind it I do. ๐Ÿ‘€


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in reply to @liananana's post:

I've had a tab open with this for a few days now trying to convince myself not to add a video game project onto my pile of tabletop game projects. (I'd made a deeply shonky version of a JSON processor/engine like this about two years ago in Unity but this looks like it's a million times more flexible and built out, and being able to use CSS instead of some weird custom thing goes a very long way.)

If it can help (or more like not help :3 ) it's super quick to start a project and get some basic thing playable with it. I made a game with it in 3 hours yesterday

Depends what you want to make of course, but it's fun to try

Well, depends how ambitious your project is but narrat is pretty customisable because you can tweak its look with CSS, and there's also a decently powerful plugin system that can allow you to extend the engine if you can code. I'm also on discord to help people with things

But I'm also not going to pretend it's as battle tested as other engines that people have been using for years. So far this engine has been used by a few people making their games in it and it's become stable enough that people haven't complained about bugs or requested new things for a while though.

I haven't used many other VN engines myself but people who did use narrat told me it was a lot nicer to work with for what it's worth