I started off writing and then a while ago I learned how to code, this project I’m combining the two.
So it is a ‘digital book’, incorporating JavaScript into the narrative.
It’s also open source, I’m not trying to make any money from it, so if any of the underlying ideas or code is useful - just reference where you got it from :)
The premise is as follows:
Martha wakes up finding she may have killed someone. And a stranger named Rossin, claiming to be effectively an imaginary friend warns of a creature bound in her head.
He tells her of a world controlled by the Awakened, people able to use namshubs: crafted pieces of information designed to control and bind minds. And that this complete control of the populous was pedestrian to what they could do, and what she could eventually do.
Rossin tells her she was pulled into a plot to kill his author, and asks her to help him extract revenge.
Currently it’s not hosted anywhere - so to read it, you need a dev environment (think vscode/nodejs/npm), that’s one of the pain points I’m smoothing over. (also, the code quality is meh, it needs work)
This is a great idea imo and has lots of room to play with. Using git has some interesting repercussions in which branches and revisions and reverts could play a role for someone creative enough to consider it. I imagine a story in which you revisit a previously read section and it is slightly different, with a sort of unreliable narrator aspect.
However, I beg you, please consider typography for the sample and other css. I cannot provide better recommendations but the one image was unpleasant to look at. Contrast, color, kerning, font, line height, etc. are very important if the goal is for the work to be read on a phone.
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So it is a ‘digital book’, incorporating JavaScript into the narrative.
It’s also open source, I’m not trying to make any money from it, so if any of the underlying ideas or code is useful - just reference where you got it from :)
The premise is as follows:
Martha wakes up finding she may have killed someone. And a stranger named Rossin, claiming to be effectively an imaginary friend warns of a creature bound in her head.
He tells her of a world controlled by the Awakened, people able to use namshubs: crafted pieces of information designed to control and bind minds. And that this complete control of the populous was pedestrian to what they could do, and what she could eventually do.
Rossin tells her she was pulled into a plot to kill his author, and asks her to help him extract revenge.
Currently it’s not hosted anywhere - so to read it, you need a dev environment (think vscode/nodejs/npm), that’s one of the pain points I’m smoothing over. (also, the code quality is meh, it needs work)
However, I beg you, please consider typography for the sample and other css. I cannot provide better recommendations but the one image was unpleasant to look at. Contrast, color, kerning, font, line height, etc. are very important if the goal is for the work to be read on a phone.