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<div id="content"><h1 id="fruitual">Fruitual</h1>
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<h2 id="text-adventure-game-about-fruits-and-rituals">text adventure
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game about fruits and rituals</h2>
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<p>Creating a text adventure game is no easy feat. It takes a lot of
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time, creativity, trial and error. The key to creating an interesting
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game is putting yourself in the player’s shoes and making sure there are
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plenty of fun twists and turns along the way.</p>
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<p>I decided to keep my game simple and tell a linear story. I used a
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web engine called Twine (twinery.org, an open-source tool for telling
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interactive, nonlinear stories) to help generate the game’s storyline,
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and I adapted the script from a Bulgarian fairytale (“The Most Precious
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Fruit”). But things didn’t always go smoothly. When the python script
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started generating the wrong messages for players who strayed from the
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script, I tried to find solutions on StackOverflow, but it was all too
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complicated for me.</p>
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<p>In the end, the game took me around 6-7 hours to make, including
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writing, coding, mapping, editing, and lots of trial-and-error. It was a
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great learning experience, but it also taught me that game development
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can be tough if you don’t have much coding experience. I had to approach
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it more from a writer’s perspective and figure out the coding later.</p>
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<p>I learned that game development is an iterative process, and
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sometimes your initial ideas might be more complex than what you end up
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with. It’s all part of the journey. Before starting this project, I had
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no idea text adventure games existed, but now I’m happy to say I’ve made
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one in just a few weeks. Lastly, I would like to express my appreciation
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for the guidance and support provided by our prototyping tutors in
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developing these projects.</p>
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<p>Full story “The Most Precious Fruit” available at:
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https://fairytalez.com/the-most-precious-fruit/</p>
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<img src="twine-map.png" alt="Twine" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Twine</figcaption>
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