Based on our record, Twine seems to be a lot more popular than FocusWriter. While we know about 276 links to Twine, we've tracked only 25 mentions of FocusWriter. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I think you and your kid would have fun designing a Choose Your Own Adventure game in Twine. https://twinery.org/ FWIW, there are a bunch of simple modern GUI builders, including GUI builders for the web, but none of them are popular, due to the sweet spot of supply and demand that Hypercard hit. When Hypercard launched, it came with every Mac, it was free, and there was nothing else like it available on... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
There's ChoiceScript by Choice Of Games. It's more along the lines of Choose Your Own Adventure. If you're hoping to make something with a fair amount of random events, you might want to check out Twine. Source: 6 months ago
You use something like https://twinery.org/ for creating the dialogues, and then write abstract code to handle that. Source: 6 months ago
The Twine website links to a few, along with thousands at IFDB; https://ifdb.org/search?searchbar=system%3Atwine And itch: https://itch.io/games/tag-twine See the Twinery for more, including the spec: https://twinery.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
The story is from my own mind, of course. I will maybe use Twine to help me with all the possible way to go, not sure yet. Source: 8 months ago
Reminds me of the (dead) RoughDraft mac app by 43 Folders(?). There is also FocusWriter - opensource and multi-platform. https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
FocusWriter - Price: Free Distraction-free writing app for Mac that allows you to focus on your writing. Source: 11 months ago
You can get it here: https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/. Source: 12 months ago
Also, if you're kinda of an indie author, try Bibisco or Focuswriter. Source: about 1 year ago
If you have a spare laptop, I recommend just disabling the Internet altogether. But before then, install a program called FocusWriter - it goes full screen. Or instead of the spare computer idea, maybe create a new user account on your computer maybe called Writing, install FocusWriter and have it launch on startup, and disable that account's Internet. Source: about 1 year ago
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