Introduction to Tracery

For a quick tutorial on Tracery, look at the Tracery interactive tutorial - courtesy of the wayback machine.

Once you understand it, there are a few modifications to the basic syntax that apply in this project:

• First, you are not limited to storing your grammar in JSON - look here for more info
• Second, the library currently doesn't support any of the modifiers supported by the original JS implementation.
• Lastly, in addition to being able to save data that get's worked out in the moment, like so [variable:some text to process], you can save data in way that will be processed at a later point - like so [variable|some text to process]. Essentially, this allows you to create re-directions that go do different rules based on remembered context. This is particularly useful since you can use a stateful generator to continue generation from a pre-existing state. I recommend looking at the example asset in /assets/story.json to see a complex version supporting all the syntax we support.