Just saw this on Twitter, thought it would be good to mention it here:
I literally came here just now to link thisā¦behind like usual! Glad you did it sooner.
Grim is the creator of the gorgeous game Devotionalia from IFComp 2018. I almost didnāt believe it was Twine.
Hi there! Just wanted to thank you both for boosting this here; I really appreciate it!
The first tutorial in my āTwine Grimoireā has just gone up over on Patreon for $2+ tiers. These are geared toward beginners, so a lot of this inaugural post might be things people on the forums are already very familiar with, but in the future Iāll be touching on things like link styling, backgrounds, customizing passages, creating buttons, using images, and more.
If pledging isnāt an option for you, thatās fine; patrons get early access to my drafts, but Iāll be making these available for free through a few sources once Iāve written and revised a few more. Iāll publish them together on itch.io later on down the line, and Iām open to suggestions about where else (Medium? Elsewhere?) they might be welcome and useful. Iāll also be working with Dan Cox to fit these tutorials into the Twine Cookbook!
The next tutorial is live for $2+ patrons. How to make stylish passages with CSS and HTML, with custom styles for individual passages or ones with certain tags.
Might want to mention for what story format, because things work differently in the various Twine story formats.
Iām covering SugarCube 1.x & 2.x, Harlowe 1.x and 2.x, and Snowman.
This is also the fourth tutorial so far. After the next one (backgrounds & embedding images), Iāll start editing the first set of 5 and work toward releasing those for free on itch and via the Cookbook.
Iād skip SugarCube v1.x and Harlowe v1.x, since they arenāt really used anymore (and probably shouldnāt be used anymore). Though you might want to add Harlowe v3.x.
Also, you might want to consider swapping out covering Snowman (which isnāt used much) for covering Chapbook instead, since I donāt think that there are any independent tutorials for Chapbook yet.
Just a suggestion.
A great suggestion, thanks! I really appreciate feedback. Iāve been meaning to update for Harlowe v3.x and start working with Chapbook, so Iāll definitely start that next month.
Now that Iāve gotten a feel for these tutorials and what people seem to find useful, I may make a kind of disclaimer about v1.x versions and stop covering them (or do so in less depth). I think I have one or two people who are still interested in Snowman, but Iāll have to look into it a bit.