Twine & Other Text-based Interactive Fiction games recommendations from Itch.io

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@Qianyixia386

I’ve always wondered about that so say you wanted to make a movie ,book , comic off your game do they own the rights or do you own the rights ??

Novels and movies are fine. It’s competing formats. So things like twine, VN’s, CYOA books. You can do one of those, or publish with HG. Not both.

Making visual games from an existing CoG/HG

Trevers is correct. The contracts preclude you from repurposing the content for a competing format. So, you could make a novel, a movie, a comic book, a TTRPG book/setting, a board game, a collectable card game, or an open-world computer game (like Witcher or Skyrim), but you can’t use the same content in a CYOA book, a Visual Novel, or another IF language like Twine, Ink, Ren’Py, Inform, etc etc.

@Qianyixia386

is already longer than multiple Harry Potter books combined

Unfortunately length is often equated with quality, so very long games that if they were novels would have been edited right down by the publisher to get the pacing and storylines tighter, are seen as the way to go because that is what is most popular. There is little incentive to edit down games.

@Qianyixia386

I’m not a fan of young adult writing at all

Can I suggest you look through some of the IFComp placegetters. Some of those through the years have not been written with young audiences in mind.

@Qianyixia386

I actually do like fallen London and it’s one of the better written ones my only issue with them is the entire grinding aspect they use to prevent you from running through content .

Early game FL is great. Unfortunately the grinding aspect becomes so high in later mid game I couldn’t deal with it. I do get they want to stop people speedrunning it and keeping them in game as long as possible for buying candles and the like, but when it becomes a chore to play it’s been overdone. It’s a common complaint I see people make that they stopped playing because of the grind. They have monthly story events that would be enough to keep bringing people back without the extreme grind seen in the later game IMO.