uristjack/nanogenmo2016

Crime Write

nanogenmo2016

My nanogenmo2016 entry. It's written in Python 2.7.10. I'm going with a story compiler approach, as shown by cpressey.

I'm going for an extremely violent world, here. Just for fun, I suppose. Murder, drugs, blackmail, more! This is going to be crime stories - not crime stories as in a crime thriller, but just a narration of a whole bunch of people doing crimes and getting victimized. Specifically, two people - just in a couple thousand alternate timelines. This makes character generation a LOT easier - what can I say? I'm lazy. And this is also technically interesting.

This was my original structure set up:

• Plot of crimes generated
• Plot turned into event structures
• Random characters generated
• Event structures filled out with random characters and generated sentences
• [MAYBE] Generated stories in LaTeX format, turned into PDF

This is my current structural set up:

• Plot of crimes generated [DONE!]
• Event template (AKA plot) turned into paragraph templates [DONE!]
• Paragraph templates turned into sentence templates [DONE!]
• Sentence templates cause generation of actual sentences, in LaTeX output [DONE!]
• Turn LaTeX output into PDF [DONE!]

Since this is a multiversal crime timeline narrator, I may also end up writing some code to generate some ad-hoc scientific explanation for how we can see these timelines. I find this good for two reasons - one, it's amusing to have a computer breaking the fourth wall, and two, it'll be a nice change from coding the generators of scenes of Tarantino-esque blood, gore, and violence.