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, expressing their own intricate and imprecise observations, and still moving the narrative forward. The game’s main mechanic is basically a notepad. You write things down. The system tries to understand what you mean.
That’s what excites me most about the project: it’s not about solving puzzles the right way, it’s about slowly creating your own version of the truth. A city that responds to how you’ve decided to remember it.
I wrote a longer piece on my Kofi about this design problem. How a game survives misunderstanding, how memory becomes input, and how ambiguity can be more engaging than precision. Expanding game systems that stretch under pressure (and don’t break), or narrative tools that work more like a notebook than a script.
Full devlog available on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/post/Designing-Around-Vagueness-in-FloppyWrite-Q5Q21GTNHI
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