In this post, I'm going to cover one way to create a battle with an enemy in Twine. Let's start with the variables. The only variable that is really needed is $health, but to make things more interesting, we will also create a few different ways to attack the enemy and a way to buy more health. We should set up these values at the beginning of the game. Players will start the game with the ability to punch or kick but will not have any other weapons.

POSTMORTEM This was an experimental attempt at making something like the Pokemon combat system in Twine. I had a lot of fun trying to push Twine to the limit. I was really inspired by Porpetine's No W...

An audio library for Twine2/Harlowe2.

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When starting to make a new game, one must start with a prototype. And that prototype needs to be ugly. Why is that?

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if n0,n_1 have the same parity (both odd or both even), then winner is: max{n0,n1}

else, if n0,n_1 have different parity, then the winner is: min{n0,n1}

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A free and open-source 2D game engine.

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A free, open source, project oriented level editor made for indie game developers by indie game developers.

a tool for drawing and assembling graphical hypertext games

GB BASIC is a retro Fantasy Console that generates ROMs compatible with the popular handheld game console.

A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system.

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