Chord(2.1.0)

Getting Started

Install Your first story Compose & run

The World

Overview The story header Creating things Kinds, traits, and settings Placing and wearing Exits and blocked exits Prose, paragraphs, and markers States Scores live on owners The first-visit description Per-entity phrase overrides Starting state Doors Regions People

Behavior

Overview on and after What a clause can bind while, once, before, after Conditions Requirements Refusals The statements The when suffix Topic tables

Flow & Progression

Overview select on a value select with a strategy Ordinal blocks each blocks Scoring Hunger Endings Death Sequences

Vocabulary & Text

Overview define condition define phrase define phrases define text define action hatches define trait define action extend action remove from action define pronouns use define phrasebook ## comments

Project & Files

Reading a .story file Multi-file stories Tooling

Cookbook

Overview Manipulation Movement Containers & Locks Wearing Senses Devices & Tools Social Meta

Standard Library

Overview Chord reference Manipulation Movement Containers & Openables Wearing Senses & Examination Devices NPCs & Conversation talking, asking, telling attacking and combat eating and drinking hiding NPC & combat traits Death Meta & System Traits Catalog Plugins & Daemons

Reference

Grammar reference

Sharpee(4.1.1)

Platform

Actions & Traits

Tutorial

Fernhill Tutorial

Overview The world Things People The long night State & verbs Endings & text The browser

Play Playground

Chord / Standard Library / NPCs & Conversation

NPCs & conversation

The people a story writes, and the rougher ways a player interacts with the world: talk, fight, eat, hide.

talking, asking, telling
attacking and combat
eating and drinking
hiding
NPC & combat traits

← Device traits talking, asking, telling →