Join The Southern Reach

Alex
Here's a text adventure/interactive project I've been working on with various people for HarperCollins, to promote "Annihilation" - a new book by Jeff VanderMeer, the first part of a trilogy which will be released this year. Have you got what it takes to join the Southern Reach?

http://join.thesouthernreach.com/

The Pixie
Excellent. Was it all coded in Quest? Can you tell us how you did the map?

Alex
It wasn't coded in Quest, although there is a small amount of overlap - there's a C# version of Quest's text processor in there, for example.

The script itself is written using a modified version of the format I'm developing for a new project called Squiffy, which is a simple compiler for multiple choice interactive fiction - see https://github.com/textadventures/squiffy

The map is rendered using PaperJS - see http://paperjs.org/ - this is the same library that Quest uses for displaying its map, so the experience there was certainly useful.

The Pixie
After posting, I did wonder if the map was two images, the dot that stays still, and then the map, and the map was moved using a CSS transition.

I saw your posted something about Squiffy at intfiction. Sounds interesting (but a simple user interface like Twine would make it more generally attrractive).

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