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La Grande Boucle - The Tour de France text based game
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| Agamir |
Posted on 20-07-2016 11:14
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La Grande Boucle The Tour de France text based game
For the last month I’ve been writing this story where the reader can place themselves at the centre of the 2016 Tour de France. It is basically a choose-your-own-adventure game where the decisions you make effect the story. This kind of interactive narrative is something I’ve had a blast planning, and hope you enjoy it.
As an example, this is an excerpt from the game:
In the spirit of interactive sport narratives like the 2K NBA games or the upcoming FIFA, I wanted to do something similar – I’ve always liked my Be a Pro game modes to come with a story mode, especially when it comes to cycling.
Here's the HTML link: https://philome.la...oucle/play
It takes around 1-2 hours to play through. As it stands the save function has been buggy (damn Javascript!), and your progress may be lost if you close the browser or turn of the computer. 
If this is something you would like to see more about, let me know, I had a ton of fun planning and writing it.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 20-07-2016 11:17
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Love it so much after just one minute. Gonna rise to glory with Yates, Juuls and, of course:
Chaves <3
EDIT: Yates over Chaves   Seriously this is beautiful stuff man, just great.
EDIT 2: Voeckler has quite a big role, apparently He nodded at me *sighs*
Edited by jandal7 on 20-07-2016 11:23
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
[ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT]  Xero Racing
5x  x5
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 20-07-2016 11:21
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I have also picked Orica Great stuff
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 20-07-2016 11:24
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Can you please do the PCM be a pro?
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
[ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
5x x5
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| Agamir |
Posted on 20-07-2016 11:25
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jandal7 wrote:
Love it so much after just one minute. Gonna rise to glory with Yates, Juuls and, of course:
Chaves <3
EDIT: Yates over Chaves Seriously this is beautiful stuff man, just great.
Thank you! If you want to restart, I've made a seperate file that changed the script so that Chaves is the team leader 
https://philome.la...cle-chaves |
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 20-07-2016 11:27
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Agamir wrote:
jandal7 wrote:
Love it so much after just one minute. Gonna rise to glory with Yates, Juuls and, of course:
Chaves <3
EDIT: Yates over Chaves Seriously this is beautiful stuff man, just great.
Thank you! If you want to restart, I've made a seperate file that changed the script so that Chaves is the team leader
https://philome.la...cle-chaves
<3 Thanks . How did you make this, out of interest? I can see the scripted bits (which cause a couple bugs), but I'm interested to see the different story trees, etc.
EDIT: Found a mistake when (spoiler means spoiler)
takes the jersey from
by the pyrenees
has the jersey back without explanation
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
[ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
5x x5
2x x2
2x x2 |
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| Agamir |
Posted on 20-07-2016 11:37
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It's made in the program Twine, and mostly uses a mix of choices and variables, like this: 
When it comes the writing part it's basically just trying to think of the different choices the player has made and write from that.
Regarding the bugs, I'm sorry! I looked through all the writing and played through it, but must have missed a couple of things (hopefully nothing gamebreaking!). When you've been staring at the text for a month, you become quite blind to it! |
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 20-07-2016 12:00
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Nothing quite like telling you to Spoiler chase Thomas Voeckler Spoiler Thomas Voeckler can counter
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| Agamir |
Posted on 20-07-2016 12:08
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TheManxMissile wrote:
Nothing quite like telling you to Spoiler chase Thomas Voeckler so that Spoiler Thomas Voeckler can counter
Woops |
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| jaxika |
Posted on 20-07-2016 12:28
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Very nice game.
I won with Dimension Data as team |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 20-07-2016 12:52
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Just at stage 1 but I think it's absolutely fantastic so far 
Do the choices you make really make for different scenerarios? Are there many different scenerarios? |
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 20-07-2016 12:55
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Just finished the game with IAM. Came 3rd. Brilliant Agamir 
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 20-07-2016 13:09
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This is amazing! Great job!
I played with Direct Energie and finished 2nd with 3 stage wins
Just a couple of bugs I thought were worth mentioning:
Spoiler And at the end of Stage 15 I was +1.44 (behind Quintana) on the GC but after stage 16 I was +3.12, (behind Quintana) even though I finished in the front group, then after stage 17 where I finished with Quintana I was now +1.03 to him. As well as on stage 20, which I began in third, 1 minute down, on the final climb I was told I was in the yellow jersey which was a little bit confusing but not game breaking. I can udnerstnd how it's hard to avoid mistakes liike that though, must be hard working out the time gaps.
"What done is, is one." - Benji Naesen
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 20-07-2016 13:10
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Brilliant game, man
Playing as Elliot Cook - a tick-headed Brit on AG2R.  |
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| Forever the Best |
Posted on 20-07-2016 13:33
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Nothing is weirder than
Spoiler Andre Greipel winning stage 5 in Le Lioran
This is very weird as well
Spoiler Fabio Aru winning stage 16 in Bern
Edited by Forever the Best on 20-07-2016 13:49
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 20-07-2016 13:52
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this is stunning, and I´m still on stage 1 with Bora-Argon18
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 20-07-2016 14:07
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The weirdest thing of all though:
Spoiler Nairo Quintana Attacking/Wiinning
"What done is, is one." - Benji Naesen
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 20-07-2016 14:16
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| Forever the Best |
Posted on 20-07-2016 14:19
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This has all the potential to be a great thread
Very good game by the way |
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| Agamir |
Posted on 20-07-2016 14:19
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Thanks for the good response everyone! I've been quite nervous about posting it but I'm glad you like it.
Some of the choices matter and some don't. For a more detail answer, look under the spoiler:
Spoiler There are basically four different endings, of which 1-3 are variants of each other. These are effected by the choices you make during chapters 14-20. Originally I had planned for seven endings, including one where you win the mountain jersey (with a more detailed rivalry with Voeckler).
Regarding things like Quintana actually being good; I started writing in June and haven't really changed the results based on this years Tour, otherwise I would've made Dylan Groenewegen win the green jersey |
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