Show HN: StoryGraph.js – Define a world and generate random stories

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This is pretty incredible and playful. Probability and state would be fascinating; I wonder if this wouldn't be best achieved by having 'Type' actually be thought of as 'Attribute', so you could have a "beautiful(simple(plant)))" turn into "dead(simple(plant)))", having the attribute itself perform as a state.

Oh gosh what a cool idea, I'll definitely consider implementing something like this.

Cool! I wonder if this could be useful for generating passphrases somehow.

You know about Nanogenmo ? https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015

Also, if you could add a license!

Super, super interested.

Would it be possible to extend this by using NLP to parse worlds from existing stories?

This could really go places.

That's an interesting idea because right now it's somewhat non trivial to define the things and rules. If you could use a story to generate a world that would be really neat! I'll definitely add that to the TODOs.

I definitely think it would be possible to create a hierarchical thing-graph from a story using some existing tools... I'm going to brainstorm and do a bit of research.

I'll have to think more about extracting rules. That could be tough.

Please keep working on this! I don't have much time on my hands, but I would love to contribute if I can.

Sounds good, I will definitely keep developing it when I have time. I'm hoping there's some NLP library out there that parses a story into an AST-like thing. Then all I'd need is to write an interpreter to convert the story AST into story-graph objects. Not a bad excuse to do some NLP research.

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