Making a simple character creator!

I created a simple, yet elegant character creator using Inklewriter. Follow the link below to check it out!

Let's make a character!

(Note: I added the paths mentioned below, but have not finished writing them or updating the story online yet)
While the overall plot of Revenge of the Gray Heron Part I is pretty linear (You have to escape the prison), I was able to add two other routes/ options for doing this. The first new option is to descend to the basement level of the prison using a stairwell, and the second is to climb the the roof using the elevator cables. In the screenshot the option to use the elevators has been disallowed (highlighted in red) because the elevator has already been tried, and the reader has chosen to abandon this method and try another way. I did this by tagging the first elevator escape paragraph and then setting a condition not to show the option to use the elevator again if you return to the choice "node" and the elevator tag has been read.

I used a similar trick to assign a value to bullets, and prevent options for using a gun from displaying if the bullet value reaches zero (each time the gun is used, a tag deducts one from the running bullet total).

I was even able to add a small passage about discarding the empty gun if the bullet value falls below one.

By using the same idea, and a running total for health, I am able to avoid dead ends that simply result in the character's death, but can include the option for player death too many passages with a "health-1" tag have been read.

If there was a way to set tags within the text in association with the ability to use random text, then combat could be simulated, but alas, this is beyond the scope of inklewriter at present.

On the plus side, I can update these changes in the version of the story that has already been uploaded to the textadventures.co.uk site that houses these stories.

Using tags and markers, and the ability to display marker values in text could make for a fun zero level adventure where the end result is a set of stats/ abilities for a starting character-just send a screen cap to the GM.

-Aaron