Checking in for 2023-08-01:

• Finished the pre-release of my Decluttering Storyworld. My goal was to create a short-form interactive story to test some theories about how interactive storytelling might work in a shorter format. Whether it works or not is yet to be determined.
  • You can download the Decluttering storyworld …

Checking in for 2023-07-25:

• Worked more on my interactive storyworld. It'll be interesting to see this one play out. I'm hoping to make a short-storyworld around a pretty mundane event to see if I can make something interesting. It's an experiment that I hope pays off.
• I have an appointment …

Checking in for 2023-07-23:

• Did some work on my Hearsay engine. I added the ability to do math calculations in the encounters. The syntax isn't quite to my liking (it exposes things like characters['you']['p_values']['passive_driven'] without a layer of abstraction but at least it does what it needs …

Checking in for 2023-07-20:

• Did some thinking about one of the ideas I have for an short interactive storyworld. I'm not sure if it will work but that's part of the beauty of this art form: there aren't any had-and-fast rules over what will work and what won't. Will see …

Last night, before I went to bed, I did a little "vanity search" online. First off, I found a recording of a live stream of someone talking about The Mediocre Programmer which was really touching. Sadly I'm too much of a stereotypical USA person so I'm not quite sure what …