(I originally posted in ‘Authoring’ because I missed the existence of ‘Education’)
I recently launched a website to allow students to create and publish visual novels without having to install any software, at https://visualink.mavnn.eu .
I won’t repost the rest of the original message, but I thought it might be of interest to people here!
That post was perfectly appropriate for Authoring, since it’s a tool for authoring! You’d likely get more eyes on it there, anyhow. It’s fine here, too.
Yeah, don’t worry too much about the forum categories. Any user with a high enough trust level (i.e. who’s been around for a while) can move threads around if necessary, and most of us follow the majority of the categories by default.
These sorts of projects are why I’m so glad about the existence of Ink! I don’t have a lot of experience with VNs, but it’s cool to see a way to structure them using tools that I do know.
Okay, thanks for the reassuring words - joining a new community always has that slightly nerve inducing balancing act between “have I actually reached the people who want to know” and “am I accidentally becoming the spammer”!
@Draconis yeah, Ink is very, very clean for embedding into other things. It’s a really nice project to work with from that point of view. Of course the flip side is that you do need something to embed it into!
Having covered the editing basics I had the first “writing jam” session in one of the courses today, and it was fantastic.
Rough, ready, and unfinished obviously but the students had great fun diving into taking the template I gave them and making it their own (this group is made up of 4 twelve year olds).
Adding collaborative editing has just ratcheted up the priority list a long way!
(If you’re curious the results are here: Save the ship | Visual Ink , and I’m happy to share the before and after scripts)