Isaac Karth

The book compilation pipeline is complete. I can now press a button and go from generating a book from scratch to outputting a PDF. Advice for the future: getting this...

A recent bug in the transcript system that resulted in the pirate ships sailing in circles has been fixed, and leads me to conclude that my transcript system is too...

Turns out I did have time to add character descriptions, though I still need to add the hooks that will insert them into the transcript. ```` 'Mizzenmast wore a red...

Release version! *The Story of Mary Youx* Git repository: https://github.com/ikarth/excalibur Markdown version: https://github.com/ikarth/excalibur/blob/master/excalibur/output.markdown PDF version: https://github.com/ikarth/excalibur/blob/master/excalibur/output.pdf There's a lot more that could be done with this--it doesn't even show off...

I'm kind of impressed that you got it to run, since I did no deployment testing. (Also, the code is a mess.) The PDF output requires Pandoc and a LaTeX...

I'm going to be curious to see how it goes. It strikes me as a potentially fruitful vein for a lot of future generators. You might want to look up...

The alpha version of Expressionist is available: https://github.com/james-owen-ryan/expressionist Expressionist is a [tool for authoring interactive narrative text](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=2152001264597139512&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5) by James Ryan, Tyler Brothers, and others at UCSC. The documentation is a...

Storygen.org: there's a bunch of academic story generators sitting around from past research, many of which have the source code available. A couple of academics have started compiling a list:...

Kate Compton (creator of Tracery) & Google just open-sourced Bottery, which takes Tracery and adds a Finite State Machine on top of it, all driven by JSON inputs: https://github.com/google/bottery And...

I like the framing. Reminds me of Nick Montfort's World Clock crossed with Around the World in X Wikipedia articles.