Immersive RP project for you all

jimmehboy

J
Hey peoples! I just joined these forums now for this very purpose: I've been working on a personal project for Elite Dangerous. It's a journal entry writing app, meant for you to immersively role play as your commander (a la a Captain's Journal). I will have a laptop with this app up (or a dedicated monitor) where I can type up my player's journey in narrative fashion while I'm actually in-game.

The entire UX is meant to feel like an extension of a starship control panel, so I went through a lot of UI work making it feel like the orange theme cockpit from the game.

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Although it's a web application right now, I may port to desktop apps for Windows and Mac if there's interest.

It is NOT designed for mobile screens as I feel like that's immersion breaking.

Also it's FREE! Come check it out and let me know what you think! Feedback is welcome here as well. If you're code savvy and have bugs/suggestions, feel free to visit the github repo (https://github.com/bpkennedy/cmdr-logs) and open an Issue.

www.commanderlog.com
 

jimmehboy

J
Awesome! I have the mac os .app working and will be available to download soon. Working on the windows .exe, too. Just need to figure out auto-updating with electron's Squirrel thingy.
 

Mynx

Mynx
Thank you very much for creating this tool. My wing and I are using it to exchange between and in gamesessions.

Sadly, I could not find a beer smiley, so have a "cheers" with this ASCII-Premium-Lager! ;)

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Mynx

Mynx
Great to hear that. Can't wait to try this out.

Will the application still be linkable to an account like the web version (so that a few people can use one account together)?
 

jimmehboy

J
Just pushed an update that fixes the new entry save duplication bug and adds an elite style loader for wait times.

I'm working on a new feature called Chronicles. This will allow users to assemble multiple entries together into a larger narrative and then share those narratives in a new view that everyone can see and read through.

I want to allow users to compile each others entries together to create collaborative adventures, but I'm not sure how best to do this in a way that is both easy to understand/implement and also protects users privacy if they don't want their entries visible.
 

jimmehboy

J
Another feature, folks. There is now an interactive galaxy map and a way for you to indicate what System your entry pertains to (if it's a single system, that is). You can also indicate what Faction your commander is acting as an agent of (i.e. might be an Federation system but you are pursuing an Empire story/goal). The map will allow you to visualize, categorized by Agent Of (Faction), the stories you are creating.

The next step - and this is probably a few weeks away - is the Chronicles feature. This will be so that you can "put together" multiple entries into a narrative that I'm calling a "Chronicle", and these can be made public so that people can share and see the stories happening around them.
 
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