SOFTWARE & TOOLS: Methods
After playing a bit in the various software programs that are geared towards story in games, hypertext, animation, if, etc., I ‘m getting the feeling that I really like playing in words. That is, I like typing them.
When working in Storytron or Alice, even though I understood the mechanics and understood them to be a simplified and organized method of creating via extremely complicated written programming, the methods didn’t particularly appeal to me.
In other words, I think that even with the format of simplification for the writer, I would much prefer to be able to type in "Alice takes three steps forward and turns to face the White Rabbit." This action is clearly a direction possible in Alice, but the method of achieving it, even though meant to be simpler, seems to me to be more complicated. Or maybe, as a writer, it just doesn’t hold the same glow.
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