twine: confessions of a deadbeat project leader
DESCRIPTION
Twine has recently exploded as a tool for DIY game creation, but it has a long, tangled development history. This talk takes an honest look at this history from the point of view of its original creator, providing both an inside look at everything from early attempts that didn’t quite hit the mark to ongoing work on a browser-based rewrite. This talk will also cover the joys and frustrations of leading a small open source project. In particular, it will discuss the decisions that led to Twine development bogging down and what factors led to the success it has found.TRANSCRIPT
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Twine: Confessions of a Deadbeat Project Leader
Chris Klimas
@twofoldsecret@twinethreads
No Show Conference
15 Sep 2013
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1. How Twine happened
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:: Hello, world [greeting]
This is a passage in Twee.
:: And this is another
That’s all there is to it.
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This story was created with Twineand powered by TiddlyWiki
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Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson
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2. Why I turned myback on Twine
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To: Chris KlimasSubject: Twine
I think Twine is the best program ever made...
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To: Chris KlimasSubject: Twine
I think Twine is the best program ever made…
… why don’t you add voice recording?
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To: Chris KlimasSubject: Twine
I think Twine is the best program ever made…
… but it crashes when I run it on my computer.
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3. Why I’m back
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2.0,not 1.4
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You can mix
**Markdown
formatting**, <<macro
calls> and <a href=”
javascript:alert
(‘hi’)”>HTML</a>.
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gimcrackd.com/etc/src
twinery.org
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twinery.org/2
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bitbucket.org/klembot/twinejsbitbucket.org/klembot/harlowe
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github.com/tweecode
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4. Coda
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