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olivierkes / manuskript

A open-source tool for writers
http://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript
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[Feature Request] Directed Plot Graph #436

Open lingsamuel opened 5 years ago

lingsamuel commented 5 years ago

Background: I am writing a simple story for a game, so the story goes differently according to the player's choice. That will be useful if I can connect plots freely in this situation. Some other software such as OneNote can satisfy my need but they can't export to a .xml file or other file types which can be used in programming.

Expectation:

  1. Plot/Scene/Chapter can be connected freely.
  2. Graph view instead of tree view.
  3. Export to a text file with metadata that can be used in programming.
  4. Export options, such as generate plot id as XML property according to character and plot title, example: id=scene1_character1_1.

I think 1/3/4 can be implemented easily, but 2 is hard to achieve. I will work on this later.

gedakc commented 5 years ago

Does the Story line feature help with this objective?

lingsamuel commented 5 years ago

I am afraid this can't match my need. The traditional story has a linear storyline, but the game script may more complex. image

gedakc commented 5 years ago

Thank you for the clarification. The picture is quite different from the currently implemented Story line.

digulla commented 5 years ago

Another use case for this would be to play with different plots while you try to figure out where everything is leading.