Resources

[dariusk]

This is an open issue where you can comment and add resources that might come in handy for NaNoGenMo.

There are already a ton of resources on the old resources threads for the 2013 edition and the 2014 edition.

[javierarce]

Maybe someone finds my collection of libraries and APIs useful: https://github.com/javierarce/toolbox

[cpressey]

After last year's NaNoGenMo I said I would try to extract useful things from the NaNoGenLab and package them in a more useful way, and, so, yes, this is what I extracted:

• T-Rext cleans up spacing and punctuation in a text file.
• Guten-gutter attempts to strip Project Gutenberg boilerplate from a text file (and succeeds more often than gutenizer does)
• seedbank makes any Python script record and be able to replay the random seeds it chooses, with a one-line change. Useful for improving reproducibility.

They all require Python 2.x (tested on Python 2.7.6 but will probably still work on some earlier versions) but only seedbank requires that you write your script in Python - the other two can be used as stand-alone tools.

They're all in the public domain, as is all the stuff in the NaNoGenLab. So, please steal, fold, spindle, and mutilate as you see fit.

[MichaelPaulukonis]

Conceptually, you might want to stumble around The Living Handbook of Narratology - for some overviews of narrative theory, and some alternate takes on what might constitute narrative.

[ikarth]

ProcJam is more visually oriented, but it does have some useful resources that come out of it, like Tracery, a JavaScript library for generating stories from expanding grammars.

[MichaelPaulukonis]

Tracey was recently mentioned in Generative Text - the mailing list/google-group that sprouted from the end of NNGM2014. Lately, there's been a lot of partisan ranting about templates. I may resemble some of that remark.

[enkiv2]

I'd like to point out that the BotAlly slack group has a NaNoGenMo room,
and that the GenArt slack group that sprouted from the Generative Text
mailing list is mostly full of NaNoGenMo2014 people.

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Tracey was recently mentioned in Generative Text
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/generativetext - the mailing
list/google-group that sprouted from the end of NNGM2014. Lately, there's
been a lot of partisan ranting about templates. I may resemble some of that
remark.

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[ikarth]

Since we're speaking of visual novels, I should probably mention the Yarn dialog editor. I don't know that'll be all that useful directly for generative stuff, but in case someone is trying to procedurally generate a dialog tree, it might be handy. Or you could always generate a Twine file.

[ikarth]

@enkiv2 Where's the signup for the GenArt group? I need to check that out.

[enkiv2]

The genart group is at https://generativeart.slack.com ; I think it might
be invite-only. Mike Paulukonis controls the group & can probably send
invites.

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@enkiv2 https://github.com/enkiv2 Where's the signup for the GenArt
group? I need to check that out.

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[enkiv2]

As for botally, the public signup is here: http://t.co/OiOB7197BH ; people
periodically check for registrations and send invites out.

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The genart group is at https://generativeart.slack.com ; I think it
might be invite-only. Mike Paulukonis controls the group & can probably
send invites.

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@enkiv2 https://github.com/enkiv2 Where's the signup for the GenArt
group? I need to check that out.

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[dariusk]

NB: I'm one of three admins for the #BotALLY slack--we welcome new additions but we take our code of conduct VERY seriously so please only join if you're okay with being in a place where you almost inevitability will be nudged by an admin concerning your conduct.

[MichaelPaulukonis]

Yeah, there's not a lot going on in https://generativeart.slack.com - and if there's a way to allow people to request an invite, I'm all ears. @dariusk - what's the source for the #botALLY registration doc+script?

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UPDATE: he's the GenerativeArt invite page: http://tinyurl.com/genartslackrequest

[ikarth]

@MichaelPaulukonis I've seen people use a Google Form to manage signups for Slack groups.

[enkiv2]

So far as I can tell, the signup just is a web form that sends an email to
the slack maintainer. Maybe google forms has this functionality by itself?

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@MichaelPaulukonis https://github.com/MichaelPaulukonis I've seen
people use a Google Form to manage signups for Slack groups.

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[dariusk]

It just emails us. Let's stop this conversation, I don't want to add too much noise to the resources thread.