Looking for writer(s) to collaborate on iOS hobby game

[Tracey]

@HAL9000

@Tracey

Are you looking to make a text game or an action-adventure game… or a hybrid of sorts?

I’m open-minded – I guess initially I was thinking a visual game but also with interactive story elements and other mechanics (perhaps like Forgotton Anne).

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@AmandaB

Just a thought: look for existing IF games that you think would be amenable to an iOS adaptation, and then directly ask those authors for permission to adapt it. I’ve long thought that many IF games would be good fits for very limited graphics, a tapping interface, etc. My very first choice of author would be Art DiBianca, but I’ve no idea how he’d feel about such a project.

@Draconis

The Wand in particular has always felt like it would work great with a specially-designed graphical interface to set the colors and so on!

That definitely sounds interesting.

It seems that the author has collaborated with game developers before:

Gameboy Demo of Arthur DiBianca's Excelsior on itch.io

As part of an ongoing mission to bring more Interactive Fiction into the realm of graphical video games, I am producing a Game Boy game with Arthur DiBianca and Polyducks, an adaptation of Arthur’s first inform 7 game: Excelsior. Our team has been working, on and off, for the last ten months, and we finally have a demo that covers the first third of the tower. You can play it now, for free, in your browser, here: Please take some time to check out the demo, and, if you like what you see, ple…

I guess for me personally, I would be interested in coming up with a new project idea together with whomever I work with. I’m also happy to explore adaptations of existing works though!