Hi

Mandala is now doing the things I want it to do. I can write text and Mandala turns that text into an adventure (one that disintegrates as you play it). Major problem is: the text writing part is still not nice. At first I was just populating a database by hand. Then came a seeds.rb file. The current iteration is a yaml file that gets loaded when I want to populate the db. Tomorrow morning I will wake up and write a script to parse marked up text into my yaml db format, and then I will be able to spend a good 4 hours making rooms.

Still though, I wanted to have something here tonight before sleep. It is now 4am, but we have a live and playable beta.

Please check out the beta, it would make me happy. Remember, you destroy it by looking at it (as as of yet there is no going back). Right now, if 60 people play it then the game will be completely destroyed. Most of the interesting stuff will be gone after 20 play-throughs. I will be super happy if it is completely gone by morning. In case you don’t intend to check anything out: here is a screeny screen shot!

Extremely minimal! But I am having a blast!

z.