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NaNoGenMo / 2017

National Novel Generation Month, 2017 edition.
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geolocation-based procedurally-generated stories #35

Open lee2sman opened 7 years ago

lee2sman commented 7 years ago

I could use some feedback on this idea.

I'm thinking of creating a novel generator that generates text based off my geolocation. Could use suggestions for a good way to do this. I'm on my feet walking, biking and taking the train all day. I love the idea of using the location data to generate stories of kingdoms or other alternative stories.

One potential form is that it generates text over one day of my life, kind of like Ulysses. Maybe it generates text based on my geolocation data and then uses Wikipedia or other corpus to fill out information? Another idea would be that it creates almost like a fake guidebook, describing cities and towns

I'm particularly interested in roguelike text generation, like Dwarf Fortress's Legends Mode. I see there are some python hooks. Maybe I can connect this. Open to any/all ideas!

hugovk commented 7 years ago

Using geodata is good idea.

See Around the World in X Wikipedia Articles https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/142 for a global version and https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/57 for a related idea.

See also your neighbour in https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017/issues/36.

For inspiration, wander around and check the Nearby page of Wikipedia to see what sort of things you get.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby (also in the mobile menu)

See also Wikidata for structured data. https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Nearby

lee2sman commented 7 years ago

thanks for the tips

enkiv2 commented 6 years ago

I like this idea -- psychogeography as narrative! Maybe you could use your geolocation information to look up information about nearby locations, and write a story about someone passing by those locations (why they went in or didn't, imagined details of signage, etc.)

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 7:09 PM Lee T notifications@github.com wrote:

I could use some feedback on this idea.

I'm thinking of creating a novel generator that generates text based off my geolocation. Could use suggestions for a good way to do this. I'm on my feet walking, biking and taking the train all day. I love the idea of using the location data to generate stories of kingdoms or other alternative stories.

One potential form is that it generates text over one day of my life, kind of like Ulysses. Maybe it generates text based on my geolocation data and then uses Wikipedia or other corpus to fill out information? Another idea would be that it creates almost like a fake guidebook, describing cities and towns

I'm particularly interested in roguelike text generation, like Dwarf Fortress's Legends Mode http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Legends. I see there are some python hooks. Maybe I can connect this. Open to any/all ideas!

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