For NaNoGenMo 2016.
Captain’s Log generates an arbitrary number of words of luckless captains and their endeavours in the style of Emily Short’s superlative Annals of the Parrigues.
To generate output you can type python captains_log.py in the command line and you will be
prompted to provide a wordcount. Captain’s Log then does the following:
- Picks a random captain and ship from curated lists.
- Picks a random starting location from a collection of geo-tagged East India Company ports.
- Searches through all the other locations for the nearest one and calculate the cardinal direction.
- Sets sail!
- occasionally encountering hostile OurShips
- usually arriving at the specified destination
- always ending with tragedy
- Rinses, repeats.
- Outputs it all to an HTML file.
You can see the latest output here, but I don’t recommend you read through it in its entirety. Instead, I’ve picked out some key pieces below:
I am grateful to firesign24-7 for the use of her Aged paper texture.