My post to intfiction.org, a big IF geek but also some curiousities and things to explore.
Some years back, I helped build an event driven system where the driver was Twine and a user client. Twine was interesting, but I hated the editor, storing things in local storage, etc. I’ve also wanted to poke at two things - a technical itch (personal) using something other than javascript in the representation of things like twine and (in the works) something I could use off line on the ipad to design stories.
There was another aspect of this, by day I’m a software engineer, at night I love the IF field and maybe it’s adhd, etc. I get lost in technology (but also playing games). I wanted to see what I could to with AI in building things in an area that is a passion, but just time and how to get started.
Whisker is the project I started, some is me writing, a fair amount is AI guidance. The goal, for me, is to get to a point where I can have an iOS / iPad whatever os the call it now client, so when sitting on my iPad I can play around with story idea.
This is an entirely self driven project. I like Twine, but (and yes I could have focused on that) I wanted to engage my nerdism.
Whisker was a secondary play on Twine. I have 6 cats, Yarn already crosses into the IF world. So Whisker.
One would ask why derive from Twine (I have some interesting and complex examples), but see the javascript thing and me being a nerd and Lua is a powerful scripting language.
I also wanted the ability to import as well as export to Twine compatible formats.
Again, it’s a work in progress despite some of the fluff in readmes (those are all about the AI tool fluffing things up).
Feel free to be brutal, this is a personal project to enable me to play around in the space. While not there, in the next weeks, I want an app I can use on the iPad and doodle around on Twine-like stories.
My post to intfiction.org, a big IF geek but also some curiousities and things to explore.
Some years back, I helped build an event driven system where the driver was Twine and a user client. Twine was interesting, but I hated the editor, storing things in local storage, etc. I’ve also wanted to poke at two things - a technical itch (personal) using something other than javascript in the representation of things like twine and (in the works) something I could use off line on the ipad to design stories.
There was another aspect of this, by day I’m a software engineer, at night I love the IF field and maybe it’s adhd, etc. I get lost in technology (but also playing games). I wanted to see what I could to with AI in building things in an area that is a passion, but just time and how to get started.
Whisker is the project I started, some is me writing, a fair amount is AI guidance. The goal, for me, is to get to a point where I can have an iOS / iPad whatever os the call it now client, so when sitting on my iPad I can play around with story idea.
This is an entirely self driven project. I like Twine, but (and yes I could have focused on that) I wanted to engage my nerdism.
Whisker was a secondary play on Twine. I have 6 cats, Yarn already crosses into the IF world. So Whisker. One would ask why derive from Twine (I have some interesting and complex examples), but see the javascript thing and me being a nerd and Lua is a powerful scripting language.
I also wanted the ability to import as well as export to Twine compatible formats.
Again, it’s a work in progress despite some of the fluff in readmes (those are all about the AI tool fluffing things up).
Feel free to be brutal, this is a personal project to enable me to play around in the space. While not there, in the next weeks, I want an app I can use on the iPad and doodle around on Twine-like stories.
The project url should be in the post.