Is it really nothing, or does the ghost of that character remain?īitsy Game Maker (by Adam LeDoux) is an accessible tool for creating 'little games or worlds', generally in low resolution 2D visuals. To actually export this this empty Ink story, I had to first write a character, save the file, then delete it and save again. This Nothing is interesting for the way it promotes its own tool, proclaiming 'WRITTEN IN INK' at the top of its webpage. Inky is the editor for the Ink scripting language, used to write interactive fiction. The minimal Twine game is a single webpage with default styling containing the instruction: 'Double-click this passage to edit it.' This is the only engine profiled here that references its own user interface by default, pointing the nothing-player to the underlying idea of making a Twine game. Twine is a flexible hypertext creation tool. You can also read about the suite's development and thought process. The Nothings Suite currently consists of the following nothings: This means you get to see each game engine's idea of what 'nothing' (or at least no effort) looks like when you set out to make a game with it.

That is, in the ideal scenario I open the game engine, save the project it creates by default as 'Nothing' and export it for play. In each case, a game has been produced with the engine using, as much as possible, no creative input at all. The Nothings Suite is a collection of (extremely) short videogames made with diverse videogame engines such as Unity, Twine, and PICO-8. Nothing to see here! But don't move along! You can really see the nothing here! Examine the nothing! Think about the nothing! The nothing is where it all begins!

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