Floppy/Write

Devlog

• Creating an Empathy Driven Narrative in a Deeply Unempathetic Time
  July 06, 2025 by Daiviey - Boukie Games#Game Design, #Data, #Narrative, #Quest, #Dialog System

  Writing is an interesting process. It’s a practice in which we’re forced to describe experiences, whether they live in our heads or stem from things we’ve lived through, using the abstract and d... Continue reading
• Opening doors with a Modular Design Process
  July 05, 2025 by Daiviey - Boukie Games#Game Design, #Godot, #Programming, #GDscript, #Components

  As I get further along in Floppy/Write ’s development, I’m seeing more and more value in building actors and objects in a modular way. This week, I created a more advanced event system that spawns... Continue reading
• Incentivizing Vagueness in Floppy/Write's Design
  June 22, 2025 by Daiviey - Boukie Games#Devlog, #Game Design

  Working on Floppy/Write has forced me to think a lot about vagueness—what it means to build a game where the player is constantly naming the world, and expressing their own intricate and imprecise o... Continue reading
• I don't like punishing games.
  April 03, 2025 by Daiviey - Boukie Games#difficulty, #roguelike, #teaching, #mechanics, #learning, #enemy design, #save systems, #game design

  I get bored and frustrated easily by many punishing games. I don't even like the language of "punish." This is not to say that I dislike difficult games, but rather that I think the word "punish" carr... Continue reading
• My first third party integration!
  March 23, 2025 by Daiviey - Boukie Games#Tools, #Godot, #Writing, #Narrative, #yWriter7, #Game Design

  Using yWriter, I started feeling really frustrated with my experience using word processing tools in game engines. They’re often shipped with expansive functionality, but very little in terms of an... Continue reading
• Is Combat just Brain Candy?
  March 19, 2025 by Daiviey - Boukie Games#Adventure, #Game Design, #Combat, #Weapons, #Wanted, #Suspicion, #AI

  "Game" is a loaded word. It implies a wide-ranging list of mechanics and goals that humans have come to know and pass on through generations. As it has grown as a social and cognitive tool, we have be... Continue reading
• Gatekeeping Branching Narratives with a Voiceless Protagonist
  March 16, 2025 by Daiviey - Boukie Games#Narrative, #Design, #Game Development, #Voiceless, #Protagonist, #Player Autonomy

  This is the first time I've put this much work into interactive narrative design. I'm using a program called yWriter to organize and write the branching scenes, mainly because I was looking for an alt... Continue reading

  
• Leveraging a 90s tech landscape for a contemporary information dystopia in 2025
  March 13, 2025 by Daiviey - Boukie Games#retro, #distopian, #aesthetic, #design, #90s, #pixel, #puzzle, #phreaking, #social, #tech

  As I believe many projects here (on itch.io) start as a prototype or learning exercise, Floppy/Write isn’t really any different. A few weeks ago, I started making this as a way to learn C++ and code... Continue reading