I've also got a rough prototype of the #DreadfulDocs client worked up.
I have some minor modifications I want to make to the UI, I need to load in all the docs I've written to so far, and then I'll let it take over a port and listen for SSH connections. Should be great.
Damn it, I got bit by the #DreadfulDocs bug again tonight.
I have more pressing priorities, but I could make time to get this online.
There are a lot of motifs we could use: Cryptid photography, robot spotting, alien artifact recovery, and ghost hunting all seem like they would work in this format.
Some of the stories I wrote for #dreadfuldocs could translate in to this domain as well.
It could be framed as a Spaceship away mission, or a far future archeological survey.
We could go very JRPG and make the game a weekly quest to find the six crystals to stave off the destruction of the world for another week.
Many options exist within this basic format! But I don't know which one is the most likely to resonate with our blend of local community and tourists.
If they don't dig thr set dressing, the mechanics don't matter.
So the thing that I have worked on that's most directly inspired by warehouse 13 is this old idea called #dreadfulDocs
The idea is pretty simple:
High level overview: It's a collection of documents from a victorian era attempt to catalog the occult (the "dreadfuls") presented as an Archive in process.
Now that we're working on #NETV I keep seeing how this could play out as a TV show.
@tardisx ditto.
I have an idea for a project using those libs too...
I've written about it here before under the tag #dreadfulDocs
I think it would be super fun to present the dreadful docs as a gemini first reading experience, with a charm.sh based ssh viewer and editor.
I could build a SSH based TUI for #dreadfulDocs and start working on the associated ARG style content.
I believe @djsundog might have some experiencewith ARG style content.
Alright, I can see how #dreadfulDocs could be implemented for a BBS style interface. I understand what it will take to build. Everything but user management I could easily do as a weekend project.
It's basically just a menu driven interface to a document database that displays basic markdown and can shell out to a text editor for authorized users.
The "document database" is probably just a sqlite file and a directory of .gmi files.
I can also serve the gmi files over gemini directly.
@brainblasted see #DreadfulDocs
It's a victorian scp.
Alright.
High level overview: It's a collection of documents from a victorian era attempt to catalog the occult (the "dreadfuls") presented as an Archive in process.
I've been trying to think of a way to organize something like The Dreadful Docs in a way that would differentiate it from something like SCP, etc.
I don't want a wiki. I don't want it to be editable on the web. I want it to be smaller and weirder than that.
Andrew (Television Executive)