Read online: Stone Harbor
A Portuguese translation has been kindly provided by José Carlos Dias.
4th place in the 2016 Interactive Fiction Competition
- Review in Rock Paper Shotgun by Emily Short
- Discussion on The Short Game podcast by Laura Nash
Stone Harbor is authored in Windrift, a framework for writing web-based interactive stories.
The story has been tested on all major modern browsers, and underwent additional evaluation by an accessibility expert. It has been verified to work with keyboard controls and with the following screenreaders: NVDA 2016.1 and Firefox 48.0.2 on Windows 7, (NVDA, JAWS 12) + (Firefox, Internet Explorer 11) on Windows, and Voiceover + Safari on iOS 10.
The game text and derived images are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The epilogue of the game includes credit for the original images, which are either public domain or CC-BY or CC-BY-NC.
Stone Harbor has been developed on a Mac but should run in any environment that support JavaScript. You may need a C compiler to build some JS dependencies.
To set up a local copy of Stone Harbor, do the following:
npm install
To run it on a Mac or Unix-like environment, use the runserver.sh
script:
bash runserver.sh
This will start up a small HTTP server with Python 3. (If you have Python 2 only, see the script for what to uncomment.)
Now the story should be available as: