MAD Candy Interactive Fiction Studio 1.3.2 Devlog - itch.io

Version 1.3.2 released as a minor bug fix

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:41:12 GMT

Version 1.3.2 of the studio only is a minor bug fix release to correct an unfortunate crash in the UI for moving rules. The bug crept in from version 1.3.1 with the introduction of multiple tabs showi...

MAD Candy Interactive Studio v1.3.1

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:06:11 GMT

MAD Candy IF Studio v1.3.1 is a minor release with an enhancement to an existing feature. This update is only an improvement to the Studio. The Text engine remains the same as from version 1.3.0. The...

Version 1.3.0 - minor release - introduces "patch" version

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:01:27 GMT

This is a very small release and really does one major thing. It introduces a patch version number. Before the version number was in the form major.minor. Like 1.2. The patch version adds a 3rd digit...

Patch v1.2 to 1.2.1 to fix hard crash

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:32:42 GMT

Version 1.2 had a crash in the speech subsystem. The crash has been fixed. Please update to v1.2.1. Thanks! Additionally a bug in rule numbering was corrected. The bug could cause duplicate rule numbe...

Minor bug fix to v1.2

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:18:35 GMT

MAD Candy IF Studio version 1.2 had a minor bug with the new unified text feature. It is fixed. Please update. The proper time stamps for the build are 8/9/2026 1:14pm and 8/9/2026 1:15pm CDT...

MAD Candy Interactive Studio 1.2 Released

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:42:08 GMT

MAD Candy Interactive Fiction Studio 1.2 has been released. It features a new feature with generated text and a refresh of the Game Setup Settings screen. There are 2 new features. Unified generated t...

Minor update to v1.1

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:42:04 GMT

In version 1.1, only the first frame of an animated gif was showing. That has been corrected. The version number has not changed but version text is added to the title bar. When it has v1.1, that sign...

MAD Candy Interactive Studio 1.1 Released

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:33:32 GMT

I am happy to announce version 1.1. This version adds outcomes for displaying images and playing audio. The help has been greatly cleaned up and has a table of contents with links to the relevant sect...

Road of Darkness

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:41:18 GMT

Road of Darkness is a project file that demonstrates driving a narrative with 100% CYOA. CYOA means "Choose Your Own Adventure". In MAD Candy CYOA is managed by using the "Menu Choice" Event and "Disp...

Documentation has been refreshed

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:37:25 GMT

The documentation of the system has been updated and refreshed. Redownload to get the update. Nothing else changed so the file version remains at 1.0...

Cloak of Darkness

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:05:22 GMT

The project file for making Cloak of Darkness is now available to load, study, and play test. I will make some posts about using MCIF Studio and base them around this game file. They will demonstrate...

Add a tar.gz version of the installation

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:51:46 GMT

I added MCIFStudio.tar.gz as a downloadable component. This is another type of archive that is extracted using the tar utility. tar -xzf MCIFStudio.tar.gz will extract the archive...

Application crash at startup

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:40:40 GMT

One person reported a crash at startup with the fonts. I've made changes to prevent a fatal crash. The issue stems from some low user account access permissions. In those cases the intermediate C64 fo...

MAD Candy Interactive Studio Launch

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:10:52 GMT

Introducing MAD Candy Interactive Fiction Studio. It is the tool that makes MAD Candy Text Adventures. Every Text Adventure game in my Itch catalog was made with this tool...