cmd-alive v1.0.1

cmd-alive

For Reader

Install.

npm install -g cmd-alive

There is a demo in the package, you can try it.

alive

Sure, if you want to read other ficitions.

alive [path to fiction directory]

Command

While reading you can type these commands.

• help - Show help information.
• save - Save your progress. Besides, Ctrl-C can also trigger it automatically.
• restart - Deleted your saved profile, and start over.
• print - Print your track, used for debug.

For Writer

Demo file is in /example/shelter. Every fiction contain two types of files.

.ca - Files extension with .ca is fiction script.Every fiction contain servel sections, each begain with a label name having the form $...:. Section must ending with choices would be selectd by reader. Two special label is needed: start and end.

js - Files extension with .js is control flow script. Every function name must be a label identity, so too return value. These is a global object ctx you can access in this file freely.

Example

.ca:

$start: 
A nice day.

choices:

a. go to 2a.
b. go to A LOOP.


$2a: 
Then?
No choice.

$loop: 
You can't excape.

$end: 
Think you.

.js

function $start() {
  if (ctx.cur === "b") {
    return $loop;
  }
  if (ctx.cur == "a") {
    return $2a;
  }
  return $start;
}

function $2a() {
  return $end;
}

function $loop() {
  return $start;
}
function $end() {
  // dumb
}