An interactive python based game
pip install -r requirements.txt
run python detective.py
Starts an interactive session for a story. Play the detective searching and reading story entries. Prompts and menus are navigated with arrow keys + Return key⏎
Create a story of your own by writing the segmented entries a detective player can search through. A story is basically just a set of timestamped entries that are strategically linked by search terms. A story can also associated with some configuration like the max number of entries to make returnable on searches.
Stories are defined by yaml files. see example stories/story_2.yaml
intro_text: string. if set, text to display at start of session (optional)intro_stats: bool. if set, display some stats about the story at start of session (optional)match_count_limit: int. if set, maximum number of entries that can be returned by a search (optional)initial_search: string. if set, start the session with an already executed search for this term (optional)entries: sequence of mappings w/ keys. this is the meat of the dataid: string. if not set, id will be set to entry's position index in list of entries (optional)date: date|datetime. date for the entry. matches will be returned in order of date ascendingtext: string. the content of the entry to be displayed