Coming soon!
“The Beyond” by Jason Shiga
https://zarfhome.com/thebeyond/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3215590/The_Beyond_An_Interactive_Comic_Book/
https://zarf.itch.io/the-beyond
My blog post: https://blog.zarfhome.com/2024/09/jason-shigas-the-beyond
Another peek at the process of building these games.
I load a version of the layout into Inkscape, and then start marking all the panels and paths with vector outlines. Since SVG is an XML languge, I can then extract all the geometry with a bit of Python.
Then I have to notate all the panel connections. I have a simple text format for this.
@zarfeblong it’s amazing how much game dev is just moving data from one format to another that’s more friendly for interactivity/real time
@eviltrout And the really interesting part, the part that you need the *smart* people for… is coming up with the format.
