This is a “webcomic” that I’m using to test out features in Twig. The early episodes will likely be non-interactive, but as I add features and start to reach closure, I’ll start experimenting with interactivity.
directions
Click on the link below for the episode you want, then press the Run button inside the page, which will download a Setup.exe file, which you should run if it doesn’t start automatically. The first time you run a comic, you may have to wait for the system to install .NET and XNA. After that, subsequent comics will download and run almost immediately.
For non-interactive comics, you can just sit and watch. However, you can:
- Hit space bar to skip past a line of dialog (if it’s going too slowly for you)
- Hit pause to tell the system to pause after each line of dialog, until you hit space.
Note also that these are “debug builds” of the programs, meaning that all my testing instrumentation is still built-in. To see a complete listing of commands, press the F1 key.
Episodes
- Episode 0: Alpha Test
- Episode 1: The Mortgage Bailout Explained (part 1)
- Episode 2: The Mortgage Bailout Explained (part 2)
- Episode 3: At AIIDE 2008
I did this as a demo for the AIIDE talk. As a consequence, it has some in jokes in it. So be advised that AIIDE means “(Conference on) Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment”, chaired this year by Michael Mateas of Facade fame, and AAAI means “Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence”, the professional organization that sponsors it.
Old XNA 2.0 versions
To run one of the XNA 2.0 versions of the episodes:
- Install the XNA 2.0 redistributable, if you haven’t already. You need only install this once. Also, you don’t need to install it if you are already running XNA Game Studio 2.0.
- Download the ZIP file for an episode
- Unzip the ZIP file (right click, choose Expand All, and follow the instructions).
- Run the application from the unzipped directory. It won’t work if you try to run it from inside the zip file itself.
Episodes
- Episode 0: Alpha Test
- Episode 1: The Mortgage Bailout Explained (part 1)
- Episode 2: The Mortgage Bailout Explained (part 2)
- Episode 3: At AIIDE 2008
I did this as a demo for the AIIDE talk. As a consequence, it has some in jokes in it. So be advised that AIIDE means “(Conference on) Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment”, chaired this year by Michael Mateas of Facade fame, and AAAI means “Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence”, the professional organization that sponsors it.
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