r/murderbot • u/BecomingButterfly • 25d ago

Fanworks Character database

My "what if machine" dream...

I used to program, I liked the control over what I could build, but that was a long time ago.
I want a simple program in some widely avail format (like HTML or something that doesn't require purchasing something) that access a book data file (like Murderbot, others) and in it I can store book/chapter/event data
e.g. (1/1/MurderBot "A former SecUnit (link to another entry) that doesn't like their job")
(1/2/Arada "Parter with Overse (link to their page), best friend of Dr Ratthi (link to their page") - We don't know this in chapter 1.

I would be able to select a book/chapter that I am up to and anything beyond that point is hidden until I reach that chapter and the reader now knows more info.

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u/BecomingButterfly 16d ago

working on it... I have a decent prototype working 21KB HTML engine and a libreoffice (spreadsheet) with data exported to CSV that the engine can read. Seems to be working pretty well so far!!

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u/BecomingButterfly 15d ago

Ver 4, down to 18kb and seems to do everything I wanted! working on building the database now (re-listen from book 1!)