In the Trees - Story Version is now live

In the Trees, the original interactive fiction game that serves as the basis for this game,  was created over several months in 2017 in the same spirit of obsessive, momentum-based discovery manifested by the story's protagonist. While I remain very proud of the result, the experience of playing the game could verge on punishing for anyone not in the mood to click through hundreds of screens of text repeatedly while solving verbal and mathematical puzzles and keeping a notepad handy.

This new "Story Version" dials the obsessiveness down a bit, offering the full story progression of the original with greatly simplified and streamlined puzzles, and somewhat guided exploration. And while this version does not require any note-taking, math, or memorization of phrases, it does still allow for a degree of exploration, meaning simply clicking the first answer on each screen will not always move the story forward.

I've also taken this opportunity to open both this version and the original to comments; if you enjoy the game or have a question about its content or development, please let me know.