New VS Code extension for writing Chapbook or SugarCube Twine games

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I’ve created an extension for VS Code that supports syntax highlighting, variable reference lookup, autocomplete, and custom inserts/modifiers/macros for Chapbook and SugarCube. It also includes a game build system and plays games directly in VS Code. You can install it from the VS Code marketplace.

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I no longer use Twine but I can appreciate the effort required to build this and the utility. If this had been around when I was, I would definitely have tried it out.

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Thankfully I’d done the heavy lifting of learning how to write one of these for my ChoiceScript extension a few years ago.

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Well done.

One small SugarCube related suggestion… …the print macro call you’re using to generate the <div> element at the end of the code example may be better achieved using Attribute Directive markup.

<div class="readout-inner-bar" @style="'border-color: ' + $power_color">blah</div>
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Thanks! That’s from my game that was out in sub-Q a few years ago but it’s good knowledge for future work.

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Also it means the extension needs to watch for those to pass it thru its TwineScript parser and capture variable references.