1-1 Postmortem

1-1 story statistics:

• 28,223 characters
• 4,606 words
• 67 passages
• 103 links
• 2 spelling errors

These numbers are inflated due to some copy and paste between passages, but I still think they're damn impressive.

I'm thrilled to have completed my first project!  I set a goal, I set a date, and I made it happen!

Most of the production time was spent figuring out how I wanted to word each passage.  There are a lot of words when you choose a text-only medium.  Who knew?  I think I rewrote every passage at least three times.  Writing compelling narrative is tough, and this served as some much-needed practice.

1-1 is a very linear story.  I wanted it to be linear because I was working from some very specific inspiration.  If you haven't played through it yet, check it out.  You'll understand what I mean after completing it.

Linearity is not a strong suit of hypertext, so I will definitely be exploring a story with more meaningful branching for my next project.

Twine tips for the inexperienced user:

• When saving a Twine project, be sure to include the ".tws" extension.  Otherwise, Twine will not open your saved stories.
• When building a Twine project, be sure to include the ".html" extension.  Otherwise, you will be unable to view your work in a web browser.
• A nifty way to share your project with your friends, it to host the html files on Dropbox.  That's what I did.  It's easy.  You can learn how to do it here.

Cheers,

Danny