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Thank you for explaining this. I think that I will Pass. sounds complicating, and as you said I am not a software Dev.The code is in the html file itself. You can throw it into a text editor directly and start looking around. It can be quite intimidating to people who aren't software developers when you do it like this because it is actually output generated from an environment calledYou must be registered to see the links.
Twine is open source licensed and free to download from that site. There are three story formats that it supports, but the vast majority of VN's you will encounter using it (including Fresh Starts) use SugarCube. So you can download the latest version there for your platform and it will come with the latest version of SugarCube as one of the supported formats. That will give you a gui that you can use and then import the Fresh Starts html file into it. Now you can look at the individual passages in the gui with all of the "escaped" characters like you see in that code block in my post above "unescaped" back to something more easily readable.
The gui is okay, but it will have its drawbacks like a decent advanced search. So you are trading the ability to look at everything at once in a text editor for a visual flow chart of a collection of passages that is the story.
(I have thought about Dev'ing my Own game a few times; I have some ideas/storylines)
I was told once that YouTube has some tutorials on How to do this; Have not got around to it yet.