talltale

Tall Tale

An interactive fiction engine.

Tall Tale is largely inspired by the storylet mechanism as seen in Failbetter Games' Fallen London/StoryNexus, but does not aim to be a full clone of the StoryNexus engine.

It comes with a small game world used to test and demo the engine features. It might or might not grow into a viable game on its own.

The project is its very early stages and not fit for any public use yet, as evidenced by the features list being very empty.

Running the published version

docker pull ulfurinn/talltale:latest
docker run -p 8080:8080 ulfurinn/talltale:latest

Go to http://localhost:8080 for the game runner and http://localhost:8080/editor.html for the game designer.

Features

Game runner

• persistent player sessions
• navigable world map
• equippables
• card decks (?)
• location styles
• encounter images
• stat images
• progress points (?)
• progress curves (?)
• multiple worlds per player session (?)

Game designer

• modifying the content
• persisting the changes
• world-custom styles
• sub-stories

Tech

Built with Go and React.

Local dev session

Run npm install on a fresh checkout.

modd is used to recompile and restart the Go server on code changes. To install it, run go get github.com/cortesi/modd and make sure it is visible in your PATH (recent Go versions will put it under $HOME/go/bin by default). On OS X, you can also get it with brew install modd.

Once modd is installed, run these two in different terminal sessions:

rake dev:back
rake dev:front

Local docker build

rake docker:build
rake docker:run