how to create an interactive fiction: a 500 word tutorial

welcome to my tutorial! feel free to look around and enjoy :D

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a short story about how to make an interactive fiction game. for neo-twiny jam 2025

contains references to depression and gender dysphoria, read at own risk!

background: i originally started this project on june first, planning to make a satire about internet content & humanity as a whole, but due to school finals and a deep bout of gender dysphoria, i had to shelve it.  it was taking a toll on me, and i decided that i wasn't going to submit it.

today i decided, with a cancelled flight now under my belt, that i would finish this. not as intended, but more centered on the experience that i had while making it.

almost all events were at least based in reality, if modified to fit the narrative better (similar to my 2024 submission, i do have a style for these i suppose).

this was rough to finish writing, but i banged it out because my voice deserves to be heard

thank you all <3