#vantaquest — Public Fediverse posts

wow this already longer than #vantaquest

wow i forgot how rough of a draft #VantaQuest was in some spots lmao

poll for #VantaQuest players!!!

how much did you enjoy it?

(you can play it at https://vanta.quest for the curious)

VantaQuest is now out!!!

PLOT SUMMARY: thrust into an unfamiliar world, you form an uneasy alliance with a small cactus in order to find the realm's caretaker and return peace to the multiverse... but not before getting baked, of course

you can play it for free at https://vanta.quest

#VantaQuest #twine #InteractiveFiction #writing

actually

y'know what

no

fuck it

#VantaQuest was basically already finished

i'm gonna release it

like right now

as soon as i figure out how

i can't believe i hyperfocused so hard on writing like 25k words for #VantaQuest and yet

RIP #VantaQuest

the fact that #VantaQuest was a nonsensical pile of crap doesn't mean i have to give up on twine games entirely

what if i accepted that vantaquest was me getting my foot back in the door of writing, but that doesn't mean i have to release or even finish it

what if i started on that cyberpunk twine game i've been wanting to write for a while

#VantaQuest was a good hyperfocus

some day i will finish #VantaQuest

eventually

if you're wondering about #VantaQuest

that hyperfocus faded right about the time threads started testing federation

and i realized most of what i had written was a disjointed crapfest so idk if i'll actually be completing or releasing it lmao

i'm drunk

i wish i could work on #VantaQuest

but instead i just feel like posting and getting more drunker lmao

i love weaving in little shout-outs to my fave bands in #VantaQuest

wow i've been working endlessly on #VantaQuest for like six days now

hyperfocus really is a superpower lmao

working on the #VantaQuest first draft nowwwww

that is to say, the one directly after the rough draft

past 10,000 words 😁

torn on if i should just only allow friends to playtest #VantaQuest (that is assuming any of them would give a fuck)

or if i should put out like a wider call to get more opinions on it

idk tho

idk if a public call for playtesters would like spoil the surprise

the #VantaQuest rough draft is complete at nearly 10,000 words!!!

may or may not be back at the seattle punk rock flea market today and tomorrow

i'll see how i feel and if any friends show up lol i may end up just going hard in writing #VantaQuest instead 😂

i think what i'll do for #VantaQuest is

finish writing this rough draft, go back and actually write it in full, get it looked over by some peeps, rewrite it again, then finally...

i'll let it go

and just let it sit for a week or so

while i work on a NEW thingy... #UntitledVantaCyberpunkStory

this'll be more serious than vantaquest, but ultimately hopeful -- doing right by the genre's anti-capitalist roots

then i'll go back and finish vantaquest with fresh eyes after like a week

okay it turns out i can actually still fit all of #VantaQuest into a single screenshot if i use the right mode lol

over 8,000 words now!!!!!

i'm writing #VantaQuest the same way i do my posts on here

all lowercase, plain text, no sorta formatting, all caps for EMPHASIS, no periods at the ends of the last sentence on a line because i don't like the vibe that gives

it's a deliberate stylistic choice to make it feel more me-ish lol

oh, and the CSS is copied over from my website lmao https://vantaa.black/

#VantaQuest is really silly and whimsical and and fantastical

so i think after this i'll take a hard left and make my next interactive fiction story gritty but ultimately hopeful cyberpunk

wow

today's the seattle punk rock flea market

and tomorrow, and the day after that

and i'm probably hitting it up all three days

i've been goin hard writing #VantaQuest for like three or four days now

it'll feel really weird to take a huge break from all that

but good in a way, too

i'll get to return with a fresh perspective and my social meter generously replenished

#VantaQuest #VantaQuest #VantaQuest #VantaQuest #VantaQuest #VantaQuest #VantaQuest #VantaQuest #VantaQuest

just came up with the perfect plot summary blurb thingy for #VantaQuest

"thrust into an unfamiliar world, you form an uneasy alliance with a small cactus in order to find the realm's caretaker and return peace to the multiverse... but not before getting baked, of course"

#VantaQuest is now too big for me to even be able to fit all the branching paths in one screenshot lmao

7,000 words and counting

finally got custom CSS actually working in #VantaQuest thanks to a friend who helped me out 😁

6,521 words written for #VantaQuest so far!!!!!!!!!!!!

so happy about #VantaQuest