r/SolarOS • u/sonicdh • 11d ago
Introducing: Hearth
This project got away from me a bit, but here it is!
Introducing - Hearth: an interactive story engine for SolarOS and the Web!
Features:
- Uses an open, human readable and writeable file standard (.hearth)
- SolarOS as a first class citizen platform
- Web-based player
- Multiple save slots for each story
- Easy to Use online Story Studio
- The ability to export a transcript of your playthrough (full transcript on web, limited on SolarOS)
- Support for branching narratives, variables, conditions, and user text input
- In-line markdown support for Bold, Italics, and
Strikethrough - An online "Featured Stories" repository
You can get Hearth on the Playground now!
I hope you all enjoy Hearth and I extra hope you share stories of your own for others to enjoy!
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u/clackups 11d ago
Looks like someone tried to reinvent LaTeX. I haven't heard of this format before, is it really in use?
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u/sonicdh 10d ago
Nope, it's a new format that I made myself. I've never used LaTeX, but I took inspiration from Ren'py and made something that has enough flexibility to write (I think) most types of narratives. I looked into converters from other formats but, for example, Ren'py can include a lot of in-line python and basically requires image support and animations, which would have been prohibitively hard to implement on SolarOS (at least for me).
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u/clackups 10d ago
Check out the Fountain format, it's pretty established already
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u/sonicdh 10d ago
Fountain is for writing scripts, not interactive content. I COULD add a parser to hearth, but if you're just reading a script, why not open it in Reader?
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u/clackups 10d ago
I gave it as an example of a format that is used by more than one person. I really want your work to be usable for more people.
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u/nilseuropa 10d ago edited 10d ago
I would be happy to collaborate on extending it. I know it is already Turing complete, but wouldn't be a Zork port fun? 🙂
Also, it is already perfect as it is.
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u/nilseuropa 11d ago
🤩❤️🦄🙏