RE: The best tools to create interactive fiction, text adventures and visual novels, with or without programming knowledge by lilrut

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programming · @lilrut · Aug 4 '17

Is this software only for creating apps, or could it also be used to create an interactive e-book in one of the recognizable ebook formats? I would be interested in trying this, but I have doubts that I would be able to publish it as an app because my technical knowledge is virtually non-existant.

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@crypticwyrm · Aug 4 '17

$0.06

With Twine and Ink you can output the story as a website and the epub ebook format for example is just a website with files named in a certain format and an index put into a zip file and renamed to .epub. So it should actually be possible, but I have never tried it so I don't know how to do it and from doing a bit of Googling this is quite a complex task, you'd need to know a bit of web development for sure to figure this out.

You might want to look into [Inklewriter](http://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/) by the same people who made Ink which I covered in my post, it is as easy to use as Twine and apparently for a fee of $10, they convert your story to an ebook for you. I didn't find any mention of this on the website but people are talking about that on the Twine forum [here](https://twinery.org/forum/discussion/1559/twine-epub).

As for publishing on App stores, yeah you are going to need to know a bit about web development here too. So if you ever made a website with HTML/CSS/JavaScript you'd be fine, but if you didn't then you'd have quite  a bit to learn. If you do go down that route, from Googling the issue a bit, most people seem to be using Adobe Phonegap (based on Apache Cordova) to publish their Twine stories for smartphones.

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@lilrut · Aug 4 '17 (edited)

Thanks for the lengthy response. I will check out Inklewriter.

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@crypticwyrm · Aug 4 '17

You're welcome. It's weird that I didn't find any app that could just do this at the click of a button so you don't need to know anything. I'll have to Google that a bit more. I might write an app like that myself sometime if I can't find anything. If I should find anything or create one myself, I'll get back to you.

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