{"id":765,"date":"2010-05-29T13:51:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T17:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=765"},"modified":"2010-05-29T13:51:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T17:51:28","slug":"choice-of-the-dragon-game-and-its-downloadable-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/29\/choice-of-the-dragon-game-and-its-downloadable-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Choice of the Dragon&#8221; game &#8211; and its Downloadable Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.choiceofgames.com\/dragon\/design\/promo.jpg\" width=180 height=120 style=\"float:left; margin-right:12px;margion-bottom:12px;\" \/>I just had some fun playing through a text adventure game called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.choiceofgames.com\/dragon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Choice of the Dragon<\/em><\/a> (try it!).<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">It was created with a system called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.choiceofgames.com\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Choicescript<\/a>. Choicescript games are free to play on the web, but are also available as <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/choice-of-the-dragon\/id348940932?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iPhone<\/a> and <a href=\"market:\/\/details?id=com.choiceofgames.dragon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> apps. There&#8217;s (so far) one more game called <em>Choice of Broadsides<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In a lot of ways these resemble what I&#8217;ve done with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thrilling-tales.webomator.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual<\/a><\/em> &#8211; in fact the basic differences are owed to the two facts that I&#8217;m simultaneously developing for the web and for print, and I&#8217;m illustrating my story nodes. As it stands the Choicescript games don&#8217;t support illustrations but it wouldn&#8217;t take much custom Javascript (and\/or php) in the page template to fix that. Choicescript allows you to set variables depending on the player&#8217;s actions and one of those variables could easily be the URL of an illustration. A little document.write, and you&#8217;re there.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">If you&#8217;re interested in playing with Choicescript &#8211;  some user-created games get hosted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.choiceofgames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">choiceofgames<\/a> site &#8211; you can start out with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.choiceofgames.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n[tags]text adventure, game engine, choice of games, choice of the dragon, choice of broadsides, roll your own[\/tags]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had some fun playing through a text adventure game called Choice of the Dragon (try it!).<\/p>\n<p>It was created with a system called Choicescript. Choicescript games are free to play on the web, but are also available as iPhone and Android apps. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web","category-web-development"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}