Story Generator

A breadth-first world simulator in the spirit of Dwarf Fortress, set in a grounded medieval fantasy. It generates a world with a few centuries of history, then lets you watch one place live day by day, while a historian's chronicle tells what really happened.

Status: the project was rebooted on 2026-10-11 (plan). Phases 0 to 2 are done (world generation, then 250 years of peoples and legends with a legends browser); Phase 3 (one live site) is in progress. See ROADMAP.md.

Play

Docs

• Vision: what the game is and is not.
• Reboot plan: the full design and phase plan.
• Roadmap: phase status.
• Architecture: layers, determinism, saves.
• Content guide: adding races, spells, events and rules.
• Decisions and changelog.
• Contributing, agent rules, deployment.

Pre-reboot documents are kept in docs/archive/.

Development

Use Node 24.19.0 and npm 11.9.0 (pinned in .nvmrc, .npmrc and package.json).

npm ci
npm run dev          # open the printed URL
npm run check        # format, types, boundaries, unit tests, build
npx playwright install chromium
npm run test:browser # Chromium smoke

No service API key or backend is needed. Everything runs in the browser.