uhh @garden-ghoul (& @cinquespotted maybe? am i right that you do/did twine things??) &also at other mutuals im forgetting and/or the General Public– is there a good place to look at a lot of example syntax for twine?

i am extremely a novice and trying to teach it to myself off of the harlowe manual, but there’s a lot of basic-but-cool stuff (lots of them things i saw in some of the twines in the list-of-good-twines in ghoul’s game about games, which i am not far into but enjoyed btw!) which i understand in theory the syntax for, but am actually struggling with– like literally just how to connect variable value changes with clicks and/or ifs, which is the Most Basic, but none of the sample code in the manual actually shows how to stick macros together like that really, and all my educated guesses have not panned out

i’m trying to write a poem in it for a class, mostly, so it doesn’t have to do a lot of actual game stuff and can be heavily weighted toward stupid flashy text tricks (just like, replacers etc), and it will not be tragic if this is not a readily available resource, but if there’s a good body of existing work i could just sift through when i wanted to see how to actually put the macros into practice, that would be wildly helpful, so i didn’t get bogged down in the really basic shit so much.

as may be very transparent i know literally nothing about this, or the ~community, or whatever, so um– h elp?