Can a Twine game create and write to an external txt file?

[lpsmith (Lucian Smith)]

No, I meant the opposite: if you went with cookies, your best bet (I would think) would be to play it online, because that wrapper could presumably read the cookie in question. Getting that info from the wrapper to the game would be the tricky part in that scenario. (Maybe it could load different .z5 files depending on the cookie?)

[JoshGrams]

@pinkunz

When the player chooses to save their game, they press the SAVE GAME button provided.

This game has a save system that tracks an arbitrary and limited amount of game states in the form of a table saved into a txt file. The structure of this file is formatted in a manner that it meets the requirements for Inform to read the table successfully.

Ah yeah, if the user is clicking “Save Game” and expecting to save a file, you can put whatever you want in the file, in whatever format. Ditto loading games.

Just a question of how hard it is to code that to it work with both Twine’s saves and for Inform. But it’s doable in theory and I bet not too bad in practice.

[pinkunz]

@JoshGrams

Just a question of how hard it is to code that to it work with both Twine’s saves and for Inform. But it’s doable in theory and I bet not too bad in practice.

Thank you for the confirmation. I know it’s convoluted as hell, but it’s worth the payoff if I can pull it off.