The Cod of Doom

Back in May of 2026, a bunch of people were discussing what might go into a mini example for choice-based IF systems that would be small enough to implement quickly but that would demonstrate some basic features. Something along the lines of the classic parser-game example Cloak of Darkness. I had started sketching out an idea when Aster came up with Road of Darkness, which fits the bill better.

But I found my notes for this yesterday, and it still made me smile, so I sat down and finished it. This one is more exercising a couple things that I wish Twine did better: conditional links, updating text on the page when a variable changes...

--Josh Grams, 2026-09-26