This page relates to an older version of the Wide Ruled Story Generator - for the latest version click HERE

This page is publicly editable support section for the Wide Ruled 1.0 (Old Version, No longer supported) story generation tool.

Edit this page and put any questions, problems, or bugs you have here, at the end of the document. The developer (James) will attempt to answer/fix them as soon as possible. To edit this page, click the “Edit this Page” link on the right hand side of this text. The sample question below is there to show some basic Wiki formatting styles. When you are done adding a question to the bottom of the page, click the “Save” button at the bottom of the editing page.

Sample:

Question: How do I make events loop in Wide Ruled?

Answer: In order to repeat the same task over and over in Wide Ruled, you can either make many plot fragments that do the same thing, and pursue their associated Author Goals in order, or have a plot fragment pursue it's own subgoal, resulting in recursion. To make this recursion happen, in the “steps” section of the plot fragment editor window, add a “Pursue Goal” step which selects the Author Goal of which the current plot fragment is a child.

If, while generating a story, Wide Ruled sees that this same fragment you are editing is able to be executed, and it randomly chooses this fragment for execution, then it will call itself again. This recursion allows the program to do complex repeated tasks. Be careful that you eventually end this looping by making the precondition false at some point!