u/TheCarp0ndastick

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Made a gamebook authoring app

Hi! New here, but I've always loved the old Choose Your Own Adventure books. When I found out there were actual game mechanics in gamebooks like the Lone Wolf series (seriously what is up with book 2 and RNGeesus taking the wheel?) I was instantly hooked. While trying to write some adventures of my own I immediately became frustrated with the way all the tools out there are "almost but not quite." Being a stubborn soul, I spent the last two months building an app specifically for authoring game books.

Current Features

  • Game system creation tools
    • Use logic blocks to create your own game systems.
    • Support for dice and card systems.
    • Database tool to easily manage your encounters and characters.
  • Whiteboard style editor
    • Clear visual organization of your story branches.
    • Rich text editor to write out your adventures.
    • Picture support, because writing 1000 words isn't always the best answer.
  • HTML export capability
    • Players can download your gamebooks and play through it on their browser.
    • Host your gamebooks for people to play on your own website.
    • Format editor allows you to customize how your gamebook will display.

Planned features

  • Print format editor
    • Plan out your gamebook for print in the app.
    • Exporting to .pdf format.

Planning to release on itch.io soon^(TM)

This is not an AI text/story generation tool. It's a writing tool made for human writers to write their interactive adventures.

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u/TheCarp0ndastick — 4 days ago