by Rexxx » Sun, 15Feb22 19:50
I think that no one used in an AIF game so much pictures like you so I can imagine that you found problems no one thought could happen.
Every system has his problem, so it's difficult to abandon one you likes, without to be sure that the new will be right, but your problem is very tedious, so I don't know what alternative is better.
I can only advice that if you want to test adrift (maybe more easy to learn than tads for not programmer) try with a short game, maybe putting the same an incredible quantity of images or put many locations (but with blank text for not losing time), so to be sure that adrift is fitting to you, working for months before learning of some big bugs or limitations would be very sad.
Rags can also be an alternative, it's something very different to inform or even adrift and so I don't know how much you can like it, but it seems to not have problem with huge quantity of images.
You don't need so many images as in pleasantville, so it's not a problem if you cannot create so many, but your style in that game wasn't bad, I liked that images.