StoryGen is back!

Elliott Hird · Sat 15/07/2006 13:36:02

http://www.developer7.org/story/

I remember this got some traffic when it was first posted, so let's try this again. Basically, you see the latest added line and you have to continue the story from it. At the end, the full story is displayed, I archive it and start a new one. Repeat.

Huw Dawson · Sat 15/07/2006 18:29:48

Umm... Shouldn't this go in C&A forums? I mean, this IS technically an activity.

- Huw

Elliott Hird · Sat 15/07/2006 18:46:47

It was in here last time and mods posted in it, so I think it's fine here.

LGM · Sat 15/07/2006 20:14:42

what a terrible story I contributed to.

Elliott Hird · Sat 15/07/2006 20:26:49

Quote from: [lgm] on Sat 15/07/2006 20:14:42
what a terrible story I contributed to.

*archives it*
Read story 2 in the archives.

Gilbert · Sun 16/07/2006 04:28:24

Quote from: Huw "I'm scary" Dawson on Sat 15/07/2006 18:29:48
Umm... Shouldn't this go in C&A forums? I mean, this IS technically an activity.Ã,Â

No, it's fine here, since it's not an activity directly taken place in the forum.

Tiki · Sun 16/07/2006 06:21:18

"he was a robot, and that is how he was programmed to respond" was mine and it totally fits!

Krysis · Sun 16/07/2006 07:02:22

Weird place.

Stickieee · Sun 16/07/2006 18:21:01

It's a lot of fun, but there are a few things that suck:
1) There is no time overlap handling -stuff. I thought I wrote a continuation to X, but after the story appeared fully, my continuation had shifted to after Y. It's not hard to add a some sort of check there.
2) The story is complete at the moment - and what, we have to wait until you manually move it elsewhere?
3) The archives are stored as individual lines. This makes reading them hard.

But hey, great work!

Elliott Hird · Sun 16/07/2006 19:43:07

Quote from: Stickieee on Sun 16/07/2006 18:21:01
It's a lot of fun, but there are a few things that suck:
1) There is no time overlap handling -stuff. I thought I wrote a continuation to X, but after the story appeared fully, my continuation had shifted to after Y. It's not hard to add a some sort of check there.

that's planned.

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2) The story is complete at the moment - and what, we have to wait until you manually move it elsewhere?

... oops, I wasn't checking. Doing it now...

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3) The archives are stored as individual lines. This makes reading them hard.

But hey, great work!

It currently uses a messy flatfile database, I just move the secret story file over to the archives directory.

Bluke4x4 · Tue 18/07/2006 14:19:26

This is pretty fun.

Elliott Hird · Tue 18/07/2006 15:19:47

Quote from: Bluke4x4 on Tue 18/07/2006 14:19:26
This is pretty fun.

This is an understatement.