jeremyfa

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Summer's over: take out your notebooks (or Loreline)(loreline.app)
2 points by jeremyfa 1mo ago|0 comments
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by jeremyfa 4mo ago
Thanks for the really kind feedback! About Loreline's future, yes, I have plans to keep maintaining it and improving it in the long run! The free Loreline Writer app on Itch.io is "name your own price", so that's current
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by jeremyfa 4mo ago
Loreline isn't aimed at parser-based interactive fiction like Inform, it's a choice-based narrative scripting language, closer to Ink or Yarn Spinner. DM4 solves a different kind of problem. Edit: that said, you're right this
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by jeremyfa 4mo ago
Because if you don't, the language can't rely on indentation to detect the structure, and you need more symbols and delimiters and... then it becomes Ink or Yarn Spinner :)
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by jeremyfa 4mo ago
You're not the first one to mention it, but it's instead Lore (worldbuilding) + Line (dialogue) :)
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by jeremyfa 4mo ago
And you can also bind custom functions to the language too, to play sounds, animations etc. Here's an example from the docs: sarah: What's this green diamond? Wait, let me touch it... james: Nooo don't touch it! playExplosion
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by jeremyfa 4mo ago
Loreline does have tags to address this. When you plug the language to an actual graphics/game engine, you can use them to change how you display things: barista: <concerned> That's a lot of coffee... <- use "concern
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by jeremyfa 4mo ago
I'd say it shares a lot of similarities given that both languages look indented and have similar keywords. The main differences are going to be the tooling, the portability, and the syntax itself where Loreline tries to avoid the use o
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by jeremyfa 4mo ago
I don't know Inform 7 much, but I'm trying my best to make Loreline language syntax never get in the way of the writing and thinking process. Kept refining it since 2024 and this is still an ongoing process. I'm hoping that i
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by jeremyfa 4mo ago
I'm glad Epic didn't go with .lor extension
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by jeremyfa 4mo ago
Portability is actually a key element of Loreline, you can get more technical info about how it's addressed there: https://loreline.app/en/docs/technical-overview/
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by jeremyfa 4mo ago
You can use the Loreline Writer app to export an HTML page right from the editor. It's pretty basic for now but it will get improved over time!
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by jeremyfa 6mo ago
It’s closer to Ink or Yarn Spinner (or to some extent Twine). Loreline isn’t doing any user text parsing, but is pretty good to manage branching dialogues and choices.
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by jeremyfa 6mo ago
It works on any fairly recent java runtime. Somebody is already using it with libGDX!
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by jeremyfa 6mo ago
For more specific use cases, you can already export a JSON representation of any .lor content (can be done at runtime).
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by jeremyfa 6mo ago
I actually plan to tackle the "graph in sync with the narrative script files" in the future, just not the focus yet :)
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by jeremyfa 6mo ago
Haxe is such a great piece of tech, which becomes more and more powerful as you get to know it better. I wish it was more used by companies and developers in general, but it's versatility is also what makes it hard to master I guess.
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by jeremyfa 6mo ago
I talk a bit about the roadmap there: https://loreline.app/en/journal/march-2026/ , and yes, there are plans to make an actual app with UI that helps navigate and analyze the narrative content, it's just
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by jeremyfa 6mo ago
Nope :D, as mentioned on the website, it's short for "lore" (story, worldbuilding) and "line" (writing, a line of dialogue)
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by jeremyfa 6mo ago
Hi, Loreline author here, I linked to the technical overview of Loreline, a narrative language to write interactive fiction and dialogues in games, because it shows how Haxe can be used to create software that can run as a library on many o
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Show HN: Loreline, narrative language transpiled via Haxe: C++/C#/JS/Java/Py/Lua(loreline.app)
75 points by jeremyfa 6mo ago|20 comments
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Loreline: Modern and open-source language for writing interactive fiction(loreline.app)
5 points by jeremyfa 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jeremyfa 1y ago
Examples on the website are more focused on things that can work directly in the browser, but Ceramic has been used to ship mobile games in production. Pointer events are working on both desktop and mobile platforms by default, with optiona
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by jeremyfa 1y ago
Standard library is not that bad. It makes sense that there are inherently differences between, say, JS/Web runtime and native/C++ system platforms. Haxe does provide relevant cross platform API when available: file system access,
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Running a whole 2D Game Engine in Unity(ceramic-engine.com)
1 points by jeremyfa 4y ago|1 comments
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by jeremyfa 4y ago
I created an open source 2D Game Engine in Haxe language and made it run inside Unity in order to extend its capabilities and support additional platforms like consoles. This post is a detailed technical overview of how it was achieved.