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Write and preview a branching story in Squiffy
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What this guide covers
For writers and designers prototyping choose-your-path stories without a game engine. You end with a small playable story in Squiffy plain text, previewed from the command line or the offline web editor. Based on the project README and not run.
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Guide title
Write and preview a branching story in Squiffy
Coverage
For writers and designers prototyping choose-your-path stories without a game engine. You end with a small playable story in Squiffy plain text, previewed from the command line or the offline web editor. Based on the project README and not run.
Example
A three-scene lighthouse story in the README's bracket style, labelled as the author's own illustration and untested.
Useful starting points
- Moving to a new section disables the links from earlier sections; use passages for choices that should stay clickable.
- If a link does nothing, check that the section name matches exactly and ends with a colon.
- Squiffy 6 is a rewrite of version 5, so older tutorials may not apply. Auto-save lives in the browser, so another browser starts over.
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