Why is the title '...for narrative games'? The library's front page itself doesn't say anything about 'narrative' games.

For that matter, what is a "narrative game". None of the sample games would fit the definition in my head of "narrative game". If I google for "narrative game", the sample games certainly don't seem to fit.

And, assuming there is a common definition of "narrative game", what does this library do special to facility making "narrative games" that other game engines do not?

The Magic Mushroom is incredible lol

https://achtaitaipai.github.io/odyc-exemples/games/mushroom....

I really enjoy the way this is put together. I have written a number of javascript game engines, to play with over the years, and this hit a really nice spot between, I need to throw this whole thing to gether in the next 2 hours to entertain the kids, and the subsequent I really want to do a deep dive into the nitty gritty of this thing.

Looking forward to slapping a few quick games into this and distract the kids in a low bandwidth type style.

Neat little thing. Feels like a great learning tool for kids, like a new age pygame.

Scratch and the others in that style always felt like it went one step too far. It's designed for 5 yearolds, and 5 yearolds don't need to be learning about code.

This is a good sweetspot for a ~10 year old. Reasonably simple string manipulation , a couple of syntax tricks to learn, and not much else. Just to get a basic side scroller with some NPC's. Then they can incorporate control flow when they are ready.

Consider releasing a class for kids on this tool & investing in the playground. You could get some real sales.

A different angle, you could do some basic procgen game assets with this tool.

game.prompt("Dude, you ran out of eggs!|Would you like to buy|an 80 pack of eggs?", "Yes", "No");

That's a truly inspiring project, thanks for sharing!

I noticed it's open source but is missing a license. Could you add one so developers can understand to what extent they can modify and publish their forks?

For example, it occurred to me that I could translate it into my native language and publish a fork of it (with credits, of course), since less than 5% of my country speaks English. Would that be okay with you?

Reminds me of [puzzlescript][1].

[1]: https://www.puzzlescript.net/editor.html

This is amazing and exactly what I needed as of ~12 hours ago.

The coincidence is kinda insane though - quick personal story I think is worth a readers time. I was just working on assets to develop a very quick (3-levels, built for one person) narrative romance game until I fell asleep last night. I’ve never developed any game of any kind.

I then wake up to a JS library for narrative games at the #1 spot on HN.

FTR the game is a simp game I’m using it to ask someone I’ve been seeing to make things official.

Not related to the library at all, but I'm curious how that canvas video recorder works in the playground. Love to implement something similar.

Great use of typing in the editor, e.g., I like how it knows the references to template sprites so it can highlight the errors when calling functions with incorrect arguments.

I love this. Fits with a side project perfectly!

awesome product. scratch like business.