Well, per my post there were 623 events with only dead links (true dead ends). You can likely assume that the number of events minus the number of unique event names closely approximates the number of dead ends. So maybe 3000+ dead ends? Idk, its been a bit since I looked at that code, but based on what I wrote that should be correct.
!!! surrounding it is a dead link/end.There are a few gameovers/bad ends that have a link that send the reader back a step or more to the last decision point. Don't know if that makes a difference to your code.
If I remember correctly I didn't have to worry about it, because only things that linked to no content (i.e., the referenced link doesn't actually exist) were counted as a dead link. Honestly I think the best way to get an exact count would be to go to the text file and run a regex search for
!!!.*?!!! and count the number of matches. Using notepad++ I got 3846 matches, which is very close to the estimate the method I stated arrived at.I think I understood: in other words, only red links ping, right? Either way, I realised that any difference to the count those specific endings would make will be negligible.
I might be able to help if you remind me of some of the details in that storyline. Especially if you remember which character you start off as.
Found it. It's in Jamie, waste holidays, save the rich lady, get the gift card, get the virtual dimension rig, and past the Farmster Girl option (which was shifted into a different file).
Nah, the whole game is plagued by early unfinished routes and endings. The author has very little sense of progression and just hops around randomly between stories (each time adding 3-4 new dead ends).
Yep been following the game loosely for probably around 5 years now. Dev will regularly make new paths that are just one page then a bunch of options not written and then never ever add to that path again. There was a period where the dev focused on only Cyan and remade other paths into a Cyan path since they wanted to finish a path but then gave up after like a year as Cyan then ended up with hundreds of dead ends. They just seem to write whatever idea strikes their fancy then move on to the next idea with no desire to continue anything to conclusion. It seems to be just a project to endless write whatever rather than any kind of narrative or storyline. It is basically just a collection of short stories where the author just wrote the first page of 500 short stories that are meant to be 20 pages. Most of the paths I enjoy were written before I started playing the game 5 years ago and either have never been updated or just had a new option added without writing the options that were there already but were dead end links. I don't really get why the dev even puts in the dead links because it makes it seem like they have plans to write those but they do not. There will be a path that ends with 4 red links for future paths and then 3 years later a 5th option is added with half a page and 2 more red links. I like a lot of the ideas and writing style which is why I still check in on the game sometimes but you just have to accept that you cannot get invested in any of the paths. You need to expect every update to be sort of standalone with no expectation of anything to be continued. I think we are on version 97 and I started with version 19 or something like that. Plenty of the paths have potential to be an entire game by itself but dev seems to just enjoy thinking of new ideas rather than exploring any idea more.
// Extract child nodes
Object.values(tale.passages).map(v => v.childPassages = [...v.processText().matchAll(/\[\[([^|]*?)\|([^|]*?)\]\]/g)]);
// Map tree of paths
mapTree = (passageTitle, path) => {
if (path.includes(passageTitle))
return;
let passage = tale.passages[passageTitle];
if (!passage)
return;
passage.parentPassages = [...path];
passage.childPassages.map(c=>c[2]).forEach(p => mapTree(p, [...path, passageTitle]));
};
// Start tree with `Start` passage
mapTree('Start', []);
// Determine max size of each passage, starting with deepest parts of tree
Object.values(tale.passages).filter(p => p.parentPassages).sort((l, r) => r.parentPassages.length - l.parentPassages.length).forEach(p => {
p.maxSize = [...p.processText().matchAll(/\w+/g)].length + 1 + ((p.childPassages ?? []).map(c=>c[2]).map(n => tale.passages[n]).filter(c => c && c.maxSize).sort((l, r) => r.maxSize - l.maxSize)[0]?.maxSize ?? 0);
});
// Add path to passage header
Object.values(tale.passages).filter(p => p.parentPassages).forEach(p => {
let path = [...p.parentPassages, p.title].map(n=>{
let np = tale.passages[n];
let pn = np.parentPassages[np.parentPassages.length-1];
if (pn === undefined) return '';
return tale.passages[pn].childPassages.find(c=>c[2]===n)[1];
});
p.text = path.join(' > ') + '<br/><br/>' + p.text;
});
// Add depth/word count to passage links
Object.values(tale.passages).filter(p => p.maxSize).forEach(p => {
p.text = p.text.replaceAll(/\[\[([^|]*?)\|([^|]*?)\]\]/g, (m0, m1, m2) => `[[${m1}${tale.passages[m2]?.maxSize?' ('+tale.passages[m2].maxSize+')':''}|${m2}]]`)
});
// Refresh the current passage
document.getElementById('passages').childNodes[0].replaceWith((() => {
let e = tale.passages[document.getElementById('passages').children[0].id.substr(7)].render();
e.style.visibility = 'visible';
return e;
})())
I'm looking at that pathing, and that is definitely incorrect in several places. It seems to be displaying the first choice of every page, even if it's a redlink.
Whoops, you are correct. I messed up a conditional on line 25. Fixed the original message to have the correct code.
Pretty sure Skooma isn't on this forum, and you'd have to go to their Patreon (their twitter also hasn't updated in forever).
Yep even though I have been playing for years and know where a ton of the paths are even I don't know all of them. Some ones I know exist it also takes me awhile to find again. No idea where the Jane Jamie path is for example.
Assuming you mean the twin sister path...
> I am over 18 and I wanna play!
> Your friend Kevin
> what we're going to do tomorrow
> go downtown
> junky kitschy shops
> -a jewelry box with a key in it.
> Close the toolbox.
> The pentagram key.
> Try the closet door.
> -all the way.
> Eep!
> The key-shaped key.
> Box.
> "Sister".
> ... a close twin sister.