Another foray into all creativity is good creativity rabbit hole! As usual, I will endeavour to explore any creative whim I can come up with, so you don’t have to! Not really, you’ll still have to.

In my last post I explained the tumbling down the rabbit hole that occurred, and my idea to create a little special one-off interactive chapter. In hindsight, I am a dumbass - repeated investigations over a period of many years have proven this hypothesis multiple times, I probably won’t write a research paper about how I am a dumbass... (that would be an autobiography…idiot).

Substack has things buttoned up pretty tight. Honestly, it’s probably for the best. I mean, we don’t really want to spiral down into a MySpace-era (okay kids, I know that was a LONG time ago) customise everything world. Although having the cursor turn into a little skull, and explosions of confetti over the whole page might be fun for a day. Maybe somewhere out there somebody knows how to embed an iframe into a post - but I can’t work it out, and I’ve spent far too much time trying to do it already.

You can visit the weird little choose your adventure here.

Stomach Churning

A few notes on this, just in case anyone is interested in trying it… (I might produce a mini-guide on how to do it, but who knows.)

• It is very hard to edit content at the same time as putting all the pieces together. In my typical rush to do this I have produced some of the worst writing of the whole story so far…and that’s saying something. If I was to do it again, I’d write the story, then start piecing it together - Rookie mistake!

• Testing takes ages, no doubt it will break if you find the right route.

• I should’ve considered how this was going to appear on Substack before jumping down the rabbit hole, but it’s done now!

• itch.io is a great place to host little testers like this. In the past I’ve self hosted (as I did with Bitter), but who really has time to manage all of that for the sake of one project when you can use other places like github and itch.io? - that was a previous rookie fail.

• This has not scratched my game dev itch as much as I hoped it would, so those cogs will keep turning for now.