My new game engine (and the first six of 1000 new games)

[EnterTheStory (aka tolworthy)]

Hi Guys!
I just thought I'd let you know about my new super-simple game engine.

After releasing five AGS games, people kept asking me if my games were available on the iPad. So I decided to code my own javascript based game engine that would work on anything. I am the world's slowest coder, so the games are simple and the engine is simple too.

Finished games:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Journey To The Center of the Earth
The First Men In The Moon
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Frankenstein

How to make your own games


I plan to add one per week for the next 20 years (making 1000 new games). See what you think.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

I think what you've done is pretty cool.  Obviously there are some limitations but it seems like it would work fine for story driven games you've already started with.

[deadsuperhero]

As a huge fan of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books growing up, I think I'm really going to like these...

[Tabata]

It was a really entertaining experience to go through it and there are a lot of nice things to explore.
I like it!

- and that paw was a good surprise


Well done!

Good luck for the project to grow!

[m0ds]

Very nice initiative, well done! I might give it a try sometime and convert my old stories to game books. Thanks for sharing!

[Snake]

I can't tell you how awesome this is! I would love to give this a go at a certain point in my existence.

I would love to see Veryweirdguy do his "Stranded" with this. Also WHAM's too.

[Ghost]

This looks tasty!

[EnterTheStory (aka tolworthy)]

Thanks for the words of support. I forgot to mention, in the land of the big blue coffee cup, my game includes rather a large coffee cup in the 'more books' menu. A nod to all my friends here.

This week's free game is Romeo and Juliet! Slightly delayed because I've added a lot of improvements, in response to feedback:

• You now get the complete game, not just a few chapters
  
• Now with color
  
• Now cleaner, and easier to follow (better start, better 'the story so far', now with chapter names so you never get lost)
  
• With a substantial quiz - brush up your Shakespeare!
  
• And a mini-game about Sam Everyman, the star of the games
  
• The backup pages (especially "about") are more professional
  
• I now have a business manager: the staff has doubled
  
• And the quill pen actually works. (The quill pen is optional, and needs a modern browser that allows mouseover and HTML5. The rest of it should work on anything.)
  

Plus you get the usual race through a classic novel, and plenty of chances to die. Enjoy.

[EnterTheStory (aka tolworthy)]

This weeks's free game: Macbeth

I'm not keeping up quite with one game per week, but that's because there is so much experimentation behind the scenes. E.g. Macbeth has more color, better art (mostly!) and various other tweaks. Any feedback or suggestions are appreciated.

[EnterTheStory (aka tolworthy)]

Latest game: Frankenstein, added last week. It's more immediate than recent games: the hero plays a central role, and it uses speech balloons to make the player feel more involved. It's been the most popular game yet. Apparently.

[Construed]

Very interesting concept

[EnterTheStory (aka tolworthy)]

Very interesting concept

Thanks. it still isn't exactly how I envision it - I'm still getting the hang of it, making various changes. But the plan is that every time people visit there will be another story, something classic and substantial, but in a quick and fun way.