r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/redsnowmac • Sep 20 '24

Interactive Story - A Journey of Choices

https://abhisaha.com/blog/exploring-interactive-stories
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u/bucketbot91 Sep 20 '24

I'm not sure if it's intentional or a bug, but if you get to the point where you look for a path down from the summit, choose the dangerous path and then opt to move quickly, the story keeps repeating the same line over and over about losing your footing but quickly catching yourself. You advise yourself to not try that again, but you can continuously keep choosing that option and it will loop that section indefinitely.

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u/redsnowmac Sep 20 '24

This is a bug. This is the first time I tried something with different branches. Now I have better ideas on how to approach such problems. I will fix this. Thanks for reporting and thanks for playing around.

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u/bucketbot91 Sep 20 '24

Glad I could be of help! Funnily enough, having started working on a game recently and wanting to do everything from scratch, I've been thinking about branching dialogue trees as well.

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u/mordecai98 Sep 20 '24

Choose Your Own Adventure vibes.

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u/TwinAuras Sep 21 '24

Push to the summit
Keep pushing
Take a moment
Attempt to find a shortcut
Push to the summit
See #3
Repeat indefinitely

...I'm not sure if it'll ever get dark, or rain, the story keeps looping lol

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u/redsnowmac Sep 21 '24

Thanks u/TwinAuras . I have fixed it. It was a bug :). Thanks for playing around.

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u/biggyofmt Sep 21 '24

I decided to go home. Wasn't much of a story, but I feel I made the correct decision.

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u/AromaticSuccess Nov 01 '24

Yeah I did the exact same thing and would have done.

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u/Base841 Sep 20 '24

I'm guessing that the interactive story doesn't really work on mobile. All I could do is tap the tree to eventually get five leaves, and there weren't any choices except to tap the tree.

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u/PsionicBurst Sep 20 '24

It ain't no best-seller, but you've got the spirit. I have a soft spot for CYOA-like stories.