Made an announcement thread before even introducing myself, I suppose I should remedy that now. XD
Hi everyone, I’m Stephen Big. I’m Romanian, I turn 33 next week. I’m a musician. If anyone’s interested, I have two ongoing musical projects on bandcamp: The Groovy Times and Oceans of Stars.
I also write. I started off writing through an online game called NationStates, which got me into conworlds and worldbuilding. Then I started writing fanfics and publishing them on AO3.
I ended up finding about Twine thanks to a friend, Arrow S. Morgan, who previously used it for two chapters of their fic Group Chat. I had an idea I thought might make a good Twine project, and I went ahead and did it. I signed up for this social media site called Pillowfort, and that’s where I met @Norbez, who encouraged me to sign up here as well.
I don’t have a lot of experience with IF. I remember playing Adam Cadre’s Photopea, but I can’t remember if I played any other IF games. I did play some visual novels with branching paths and stuff, like Suzerain. And I’ve played some Choice of Games works. I bought Hollywood Visionary on Steam, lol. And now I’m considering buying Cliffhanger on Steam as well because I’ve replayed the first 3 chapters quite a lot by now. XD
I don’t know how to code - at all. I once took a web design course to try and polish my CV and I barely remember much from it. In general I guess I just use a computer, rather than know how it works. I think without Twine I never would’ve made something that resembled a game. Arrow told me back then that writing in Twine is about as difficult as “formatting a Reddit post”, which was very good news for me. XD