Right, so, while waiting for a collab project to finish (as well as working on more involved stuff), I made a couple things for the latest Pirate Kart thingie over on Glorious Trainwrecks. Have a look if you like short crappy games and/or camels.
I also opened a tumblr where I’ll be dumping, errr, visual experiments? (I can’t bring myself to call this art, ah ah), WIP screenshots and the occasional reblog. It’s right over there.
Be seeing you!
So, 2015 started as shitty as 2014 ended, which made this thing (which normally could have been done in like two days) take ages to finish. Anyway, it’s here now. Introducing Gat Life, an exciting new IP. Grab the first episode on itch.io (widget below) or GameJolt, your choice.
I normally would have added more words, but I’m knackered and my brain has turned to soup over the last few days so I’ll just shut up and save it for later.
Take care.
Reposting this here because it’s my damn blog (who reads this thing anyway?) and I’m kind of proud of it:
@artassignbot
#!/usr/bin/python
import random as r
while True:
print"you collected "+str(r.randint(0,1000))+" gold coins before dying."
— empty fortress (@emptyfortress) September 23, 2014
OK, I misread the tweet and thought there were 111 seconds (honest!). Still, that was fun. I’m almost tempted to dig out my Perl cookbook to see what else could possibly be crammed in 140 characters. Almost.
Sometimes you want to change the style of a short snippet of text. Here’s a quick n’dirty way to do this with links.
1- Create a stylesheet passage (that’s a regular twine passage tagged “stylesheet”). What you want to do is create CSS rules for html <span> elements which are in Twine passages, and apply them to your chosen bits of text. If you don’t know what a span element is, that’s ok, you don’t need to 🙂
Assuming you want some links to be blurred, and “un-blurred” when the mouse is over them, your declarations could look like this:
.passage span.blurredlink a {
color: transparent;
text-shadow: 0 0 5px #999;
/* This affects passage links */
}
.passage span.blurredlink a:hover {
color: #999999;
text-shadow: 0 0 0px #999;
}
Change “blurredlink” to an appropriate name, and put your CSS code inside the curly brackets.
2- In your passage, put the link you want to style inside a <span> tag, and give the span tag the CSS class name you defined in your stylesheet passage. Like this:
Hello, I'm a <span class="blurredlink">blurry link</span>.
This can also be used for regular text, not just links, just remove the “a” and “a:hover” from the CSS declaration, like this:
.passage span.neonpink {
color: #E427E8;
}
Here’s a short demo, you can also grab its twine source file (right-click, choose “save as…”). Hopefully this is useful to someone somewhere.