Trialogue

Trialogue is a Story Format for Twine that let's you turn a branching narrative into an interactive chat story. Write a non-linear story in the Twine editor, add Trialogue as the Story Format and play back your story in the form of an interactive chat.

👉 Demo story: https://phivk.github.io/trialogue/docs/trialogue-demo.html

User Guide

A guide on how to use Trialogue to create interactive chat bot stories in Twine is available at:

https://phivk.gitbook.io/trialogue/

Example stories powered by Trialogue

Example stories using Trialogue (add yours by submitting a Pull Request, or open an issue with a link):

• Chatterpast: Explore life in Iron Age and Roman Britannia with Enica and her friends.
• Filla Fulla Chat: Take part in an interactive conversation and explore life stories and key artworks of the iconic Czech and Slovak artists Emil Filla and Ľudovít Fulla.
• Mother Tongue: How to learn Tagalog in just one awkward conversation with your mom a day.

Development Setup

A possible workflow for collaboration between a Story Author and Format Developer:

1. Story Author works on story in Twinery GUI, with current version of published Story Format selected
2. Story Author exports updated version of Story to .html file and shares it with Format Developer (infrequently)
3. Format Developer decompiles the latest Story version from .html to .twee using TweeGo/Twee2 (see 'Testing during development')
4. Format Developer runs TweeGo/Twee2 to compile the latest Story from .twee to .html with WIP/'in development' version of custom Story Format (see 'Testing during development')
5. Format Developer adjusts Story Format (frequently)
6. Format Developer repeats from step 4. until happy to release a new version of Story Format
7. Format Developer publishes Story Format as a new version (infrequently)
8. Story Author imports the new version of the Story Format and continues working on the Story
9. Repeat from 1. until happy with Story Format functionality
10. 🎉

Testing during development

Building Story Format from Source

Run npm install to install dependencies. Run grunt package to create a release version for Twine under dist/. Run grunt --help to list other grunt targets.

Compiling a story using Trialogue

A way to test the result of adjustments to the Story Format, is to compile a .twee Story to .html using the Trialogue format and check the behaviour & styling in a browser.

(De)compilation can be done using either:

• TweeGo
• Twee2

Decompile .html story to .twee/.tw2 using Trialogue Story Format:

tweego --decompile --output=[path/to/target.twee] [path/to/source.html] --format=Trialogue

twee2 decompile [path/to/source.html] [path/to/target.tw2]

Compile .twee/.tw2 story to .html story using Trialogue Story Format:

tweego --output=[path/to/target.html] [path/to/source.twee] --format=Trialogue

twee2 build [path/to/source.tw2] [path/to/target.html] --format=./dist/Twine2/Trialogue

Paloma

Trialogue is based on Paloma by M. C. DeMarco: a Jonah-style Story Format for Twine 1 and 2 based on Snowman by Chris Klimas and Dan Cox.