atduskgreg/fictional-octo-robot

TODO

• Convert over to event system for other people detection, etc.

• Get tracery installed and setup

• Generate room descriptions

• Divide rooms up into regions (or place furniture) and use proximity to this in log

• Generate characters and relationships

  • Character goal
    • look for item (with expected item room)
    • meet other character
    • visit every room (eg. clean)
  • character name
  • relationships with other characters

• Generate murder details

  • select murderer, victim, and motive
  • how long ago did the murder happen
  • murder plot examples
    • A and B are partners in a venture, A kills B
    • A, B, and C have claims on a fortune, A kills B and C
      • inheritance
      • secret treasure
    • A and B have a romantic relationship gone bad, A kills B
    • A knows a secret about B. B kills A to keep it
      • It's political. B had an affair/secret business dealing with a famous politician.
    • A wants object X. B kills A to keep it
      • A and B both want object X. They fight and A is killed
  • markup language:
    • inheritance example:
      • rel(A,B, "siblings", symmetric=true)
      • rel(B,C, "siblings", symmetric=true)
      • rel(A,C, "siblings", symmetric=true)
      • murder(A, B|C, motive="inheritance")

• Narrative structure

  • Each character describes their relationships with the others as they move through the rooms
    • their relationship with an item
    • Their relationship with the house
    • through an item in each room