Kimera is a platform for reading and writing interactive fiction, collaboratively or solo. You can let your friends add pages to your book and have a branching web of tales. You can make them publicly readable, or only allow friends. The discord bot is a full extension of the web platform (minus some social features like comments atm). You can read and write directly through discord, and even make an automatic account tied only to your discord id if you don’t feel like signing up.
- A full permission system lets you assign read/write/edit/delete/book-setting perms to individual users or groups (and a public option so anyone can read it).
- For the social aspect there are private messages and a groups system. Comments are allowed on profiles, books, book pages, and group pages.
- Books have 2 entities in them, pages and links. Each page can have an image added. The links exist between any 2 pages and let you create looping paths and whatnot, and are also where scripts are executed upon following a link.
- Scripts let you track and assign variables and display them in the body of pages. Right now there’s one global variable called user tied to the user’s name. Links have an option to accept a text field upon following and assigning that to a variable (so you could have a riddle and make the reader enter the exact answer, for example).
- On top of it all is a basic currency system for gamifying reading/writing. Page authors can set a corn price on each page, defaulting to 1. Eventually authors will be able to redeem the corn they’ve earned for clout/number go up. At the default price I think it’s pretty unintrusive as you can collect 240 corn once every 24 hours, and an additional 10 every hour.
Add the bot and do /kimera, or join online
