I’ve been researching the Narrat design engine which does a lot of the things I want it to. So far it’s very well documented and there is a developer-run Discourse Forum with a lot of information, but the last post was several weeks ago so not sure how active it is.
I’m still reading documentation and that forum, but is anyone familiar with this tool? Right now I’m floundering a bit learning how to utilize the terminal and node.js on MacOS. I’ve managed to get a demo game running on the local host, and I think I get how the process works, but there’s always so many words and warnings in terminal that are a bit bewildering since I’m new.
I’ve got Visual Studio code installed - which is preferred since there’s a syntax-highlighter for Narrat. At some point it also wanted me to update some Python stuff, which I don’t know if it was for Narrat or VS.
Just curious if there’s a person whose brain I can pick if I run into problems. Their forum is great; I’ve introduced myself but am not sure how active it regularly is.
I was interested in this engine but the community.jusy isn’t that active over all and most of the games I saw completed on it weren’t really good at showcasing it’s capabilities .
The ones that were possibly good all cost money . It does have a lot of game jam titles the problem is most of them have like zero game play mechanics at all .
It honestly felt like it was a worst version of visual novels. Like everything narrat has I think visual novels do better . Their was a paid game that seems to push the engine to its limits but you got to pay for it so it’s like ughh no examples of games made in the engine with any actual game play . It’s kind the same beef I have with twine most of the games on twine and choice script don’t feel like games at all. I noticed text based story games have this problem but dungeon and rogue like ones don’t .
Although I think that’s the best situation for a new development system: a creator can’t find what they want exactly so they create their own thing, then release it so others can use it.