Do NOT ever use that 4 word description of the genre nor the well know 4 letter acronym. Trademark owner goes VERY AGGRESSIVELY after both. Erase every mention of it everywhere, delete repo and create new one. Replace it with something like
- Interactive Story
- Branching Narrative
- Pick Your Path
- Create Your Own Quest
- Personalized Plotline
- Dynamic Storytelling
When I looked into CYOA, I opted for Ink. It's using a nice text-based language, a bit like markdown. It worked well for me, and I think it's a good option if you want to use a text editor.
Ink looks iteresting! Twinery provides a nice visual editor for the passages and branches which I found appealing. Ultimately, I used Mermaid to create visual snapshots of the story which were useful when editing the physical book.
Sorry to hijack a bit the thread. I have been using Emacs for the past 20+ years. Before I could live in Emacs, now, I find it harder (software forced on me by external customers, AI tools, ...).
I try everywhere I can to install an Emacs mode for code/text navigation. But they tend to be inconsistent and for some software, it is simply not possible.
Do you have good resources to help there (running Linux/Gnome)? Do you keep the faith or switched "out"?
Install the latest emacs release and you will be able to do `M-x eglot` – this by default knows about language servers for many programming languages, so if you e.g. do this while in a C++ file in some project, it will start clang or ccls (whatever's in PATH); the language server will then be active for all files in that project and you can use `M-.` (xref-find-definitions), `M-,` (xref-go-back), `M-?` (xref-find-references). Try also `M-x eglot-code-actions` on a symbol to see all available actions (renaming, add imports, refactoring etc.; what you get here depends on the language server).
I also use this plugin https://github.com/minad/consult which has the command `consult-ripgrep`, very useful for e.g. looking up all occurrences of the symbol at point (and text navigation across multiple files).
For "AI", start with https://github.com/karthink/gptel/ (its README lists alternative packages, as you can see there is no lack of llm support in emacs, both chat, "agents" and more specific use-cases)
To add to this, consult works great with embark, and orderless, which make for a wonderful emacs experience.
Also, on the llm point even though I know elisp, and use emacs heavily, they can be great for creating little personal commands that just make things a little nicer to use (lowering the barrier of "I'll write a command for this" from 15 minutes to 2 minutes is huge and means I can be bothered to do it for more marginal things which makes the editor even more pleasant to use).
This is awesome! Thank you for sharing the backstory, and open-sourcing the tools you built. THIS is the kind of thing that keeps me coming back to HN more often than I should.
Thank you! I have been an Emacs user/consumer for many years. This project finally got me into the proverbial weeds, a fun venture, learning elisp, exploring the Org code base especially around the export backends [1]. It was useful going through the one.el source code as well, and I now write my blog in Emacs, rendering it using this package [2].
Thanks! The story images were made in Google Whisk. The tool allows you to generate a character and then apply the character to a scene separately defined. While more advanced than other image generation platforms, it isn't perfect and the images required lots of editing in GIMP. The vectors (achievement stickers, play cash) were made in Inkscape.
- Interactive Story - Branching Narrative - Pick Your Path - Create Your Own Quest - Personalized Plotline - Dynamic Storytelling
Stop whatever you are doing and do it NOW!
I no longer do game dev but I'm already sweating.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21720533/netflix-banders...
When I looked into CYOA, I opted for Ink. It's using a nice text-based language, a bit like markdown. It worked well for me, and I think it's a good option if you want to use a text editor.
I wrote about my experiments here: https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/my-adventures-with-narrative...
I try everywhere I can to install an Emacs mode for code/text navigation. But they tend to be inconsistent and for some software, it is simply not possible.
Do you have good resources to help there (running Linux/Gnome)? Do you keep the faith or switched "out"?
I also use this plugin https://github.com/minad/consult which has the command `consult-ripgrep`, very useful for e.g. looking up all occurrences of the symbol at point (and text navigation across multiple files).
For "AI", start with https://github.com/karthink/gptel/ (its README lists alternative packages, as you can see there is no lack of llm support in emacs, both chat, "agents" and more specific use-cases)
Also, on the llm point even though I know elisp, and use emacs heavily, they can be great for creating little personal commands that just make things a little nicer to use (lowering the barrier of "I'll write a command for this" from 15 minutes to 2 minutes is huge and means I can be bothered to do it for more marginal things which makes the editor even more pleasant to use).
I think that the AI CLI agents are the response for AI, but for now, I am opening VSCode with an Emacs extension and some keybinding changes.
M-x dunnet
which has shipped with GNU Emacs since 1994.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnet_(video_game)
Anyway, nice work!
[1] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/org/o... [2] https://github.com/tonyaldon/one.el
Daphne's eyes are brown, except in the supermarket scene, where they're grey.
How were the images produced?