Arc Driver
A downloadable game
This is a solo engine for running narrative adventures using a story framework.
Features:
- An oracle for answering binary questions inspired by Motif Story Engine.
- Word tables and question recipes for answering open-ended questions.
- A twists table for generating surprising story events.
- An 8 step story framework for guiding your story through the three-act story structure.
- Minimalistic. Current version is only 5 pages.
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Key to this is the Arc Driver story framework, and this is a decently powerful tool to add framework to a narrative solo session.
The included oracle is very slim. I understand that the intent is to not take up much space but the author's trimmed a bit too much off the source inspirations.
Practically speaking this doesn't much matter because the oracle is trivially switched out for something else, and the real meat of this is the story framework or Arc Driver, which has some real legs.
The word tables seem to strike a good balance between generic and still providing some shape as far as I can tell, but I don't use that kind of tool myself, so I'm not the best judge.
If I had a request for future revisions, it would be a more defined layout and structure, and possibly some examples of use.