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2023-10-23
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i think the story is "done"
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i had grand designs for a very complicated narrative structure
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but i ended up scrapping 99.9% of that in order to just finish it.
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using rec as a database i think is fine
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and i think i would do it again.
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but somewhere around 50/60 nodes,
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i started to become unable to keep the whole story in my head
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all at once.
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that is,
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i would look at the graph
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and couldn't immediatly map it to a part of the story
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in my mind.
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i think i could fix that by having the graph
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include both the id and the name?
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but also i suspect that at that size,
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the graph simply isn't a great tool any longer
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for assessing the shape and flow of the story.
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the recfile itself started to become kind of had to navigate at that size too.
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i created a tags file to help navigate,
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and added some syntax highlighting,
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and make some snippets,
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and that helped a little bit with the cognative load.
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but also i broke the story at least twice
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by accidentally creating a node with a non-unique name.
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so i think that if i were to do this again,
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i made make a 'recins' wrapper
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in order to enforce data integrity
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instead of just creating data by hand in the recfile.
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i also think that i might create a new schema
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to include 'links' or 'branches'
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because i think elevating that information to its own field/value
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could make it easier to export the data into, say, twine
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or some other kind of text driven engine.
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there was at least one point
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at which i wish i had the ability to create a 'data node'
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and then query that for a value.
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e.g. "if has_visited? then goto(id) else goto(other) end"
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this might be possible in recutils 1.10
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if jem is successful in adding scripting to recfmt.
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in summary,
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it worked well enough!
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but started to become a little unwiedly toward the end.
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