Low Effort Extra Story

Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay

                                                                                                                             

https://opengameart.org/content/random-encounter

https://opengameart.org/content/boss-introduction

by Spring Spring

                                                                                                                             

https://opengameart.org/content/item-shop

by controllerhead

                                                                                                                           

Devlog:

The last couple of months have been more about experimenting with things I don't understand than actually building games or doing art. So doing a short entry was a last minute decision using something I had tried using once before in the Low Effort Princess Jam: Ink.
What is Ink? It is a markdown language for writing stories. It also just so happens that the editor for it, Inkle, has an export function for web builds. So instead of building an entire game, I just used that.
 The language itself doesn't support audio or images but the build has special tags for the export only to easily include those. So I just grabbed some music and scribbled a couple a pictures and added those into the game.

Now I understand this tool a bit  more and there is a good chance I will keep using it for future projects. There are some features I still need to look at, like includes and stitches, but overall it beats writing everything in a dictionary of strings.