NotQuiteTher

[meteopath]

I'm finally ther! NQT is an e-reader/first-person writer. The interface is a virtual typewriter. The books come from Project Gutenberg. I am open to feedback. Thank you very much for taking a look.

Website with video and mac/windows downloads: https://meteopath.github.io/notquitether/
ReadMe: https://github.com/meteopath/notquitether
Source code: https://github.com/meteopath/notquitether/tree/main/src

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[knorke]

At start it hangs up with a white screen and typewriter noises for a few seconds.
Afterwards it seems to work fine.
Should clicking the red circled "i" do something? It does nothing.
This could be cool as cut-scenes for a game where the story is told through his diary, notes and letters. (maybe you play as a detective)

[meteopath]

It's good to know that it worked alright. I only tested it on my machine. I didn't know what to expect with performance.

That snag at the start was the best I could do. Or at least the better of two not-great options. It's a 7-second title sequence that's getting jammed, at least visually, as the assets load. But I thought it was better this way than how I had it before, where I loaded the assets first before starting the title sequence. In that case you got the spinning wheel for a 5 or 10 seconds before the window appeared and the title sequence started.

Clicking the circled-i (or pressing the 'i' key) is supposed to start a 10-second explainer-tour of the clickable icons and the active hot keys on that screen. Sorry it didn't work. Not sure what happened. It worked for me. But there might be something unstable about that icon. It does this weird thing every so often where the circle expands on its own out past the borders of the screen with an annoying almost strobe hitchiness. I should have swapped it out for a png, but I thought a vector was cooler so I stuck with it. I'll have to take another look at it.

Thanks very much for taking a look and giving that feedback. I really appreciate it. I could totally see your suggestion. It made me think of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe stories.