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NaNoGenMo / 2019

National Novel Generation Month, 2019 edition.
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Grimoire: procedural occultism [COMPLETED] #28

Open splendid-snail opened 4 years ago

splendid-snail commented 4 years ago

Grimoire will be a procedurally generated occult handbook, inspired by late medieval spellbooks and demonological texts.

Expect a frightening hierarchy of demonic nobility, descriptions of their realms, images of their seals and instructions for conjuration.

Generate at your own risk

LuRsT commented 4 years ago

That was one of the ideas I considered for this year, I'm looking forward to it!

enkiv2 commented 4 years ago

Machine-generated grimoires are always fun. I look forward to seeing it -- especially the sigils!

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theairdemon commented 4 years ago

Looks like a fun project!

splendid-snail commented 4 years ago

Thanks to everyone who has expressed an interest so far! I'm by no means an experienced or skilled developer, but I'm happy with how this is coming along. It generates a nice taxonomy of demonic rulers and underlings so far, with more detail planned. It doesn't output any text yet beyond a few placeholders for testing, but that's coming very soon. Sigils and fancifying the HTML output will come later. I'm also designing an IRL ritual to strengthen and embolden the project and may introduce some verbal sigils into the code in an unobtrusive way.

splendid-snail commented 4 years ago

This is coming along quite nicely and now spits out about 20,000 words or a little more per generation.

Clearly a long way to go but I have a few ideas for how it will come together. Procedural sigils might not make the cut if I really struggle for time -- the focus has to be on the text -- but I'll be disappointed if it works out that way!

LuRsT commented 4 years ago

This is great! If you'd like, I could work on generating the sigils or help out anywhere around your project, we could do a 2-people project (I'm not feeling very inspired this month and I have abandoned my other project)

splendid-snail commented 4 years ago

It's done! Forgive the atrocious front end but:

All ya do is get the files in one place and run "Grimoire.py", but if I find time in December I might try to make a fully web-based version.

But I'm proud of this!