Can't do any Flash work on my new Mac because Flash Builder 4 sucks balls. So until I get all the software I need to rectify that, working on Flash at home will have to wait.
So I'm trying out some javascript.
I was inspired by this project:
http://www.ffproject.com/And I've been writing a Fighting Fantasy adventure in the comments of my work project during compile times. (I put the lyrics to the Um Bongo song in the comments for Dirk Valentine, so I thought I'd carry on a theme with my steampunk games.)
These choose your own adventure novels can be quite fun (especially with objects and monsters to fight). And they're even better on the web, as you no longer have to flick through a whole book to find the references. But as I found out, they're very hard to write.
If you had a tool that showed you the whole graph of the novel, and you could easily edit the graph, then save projects that you could upload to a site, that would make it so much easier to write them. Keeping the whole project in javascript means that you could write novels that can be played on the iPhone and iPad. I'm also trying to set up the text for each reference so that you could write your own html and put pictures in. Since each reference is a javascript file, you could also trigger sounds and animations too.
Heres the basic framework so far:
http://robotacid.com/js/adventure/03/and source code
http://robotacid.com/js/adventure/03/adventure03.zipI need to start work on the editor now...