Twine 2 Chat

Built with

• Express
• Botkit

How it works

This tool uses Express and Botkit to deploy a bot server that communicates with Telegram messaging. Visiting the root path allows you to upload a Twine HTML file which will "train" the bot with story dialog. This works by first converting the Twine to a graph object, then traversing the graph with Botkit dialog/thread building API. Once trained, you can interact with the bot through Telegram and navigate the story based on your responses to the bot.

Twine file

Assumptions

• Each node name starts with a scene label/ID

Manual edit to Twine project

• Normalize responses/variables
  • yes
  • no
  • no response
  • {VARIABLE_NAME}

Future Improvements

• Would be better to set scene labels (e.g. 1.3A) as tags rather than the title
• NLU for better intents using DialogFlow, Wit, Watson, etc.
• Timing logic for "no response"
• Check length of message text to determine if it's short or long

References

• https://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/projects/tendencyto-spill-using-chatbot-storytelling-platform
• https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2017/10/04/chatbots

Develop

Install

yarn install

Run

yarn dev

Build & Deploy

yarn build && yarn deploy