Paradise

Paradise plays like an interactive fiction novel, in an ever-changing world where you are not an avatar but a force acting upon words - moving around and into your other selves, threading through chaos.

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges

Install

You can use paradise directly in your browser.

Cli/Desktop

Move to either /desktop, or /cli and run:

npm install
npm start

Actions

There are 16 base actions, you can queue multiple actions using the & character, for example create a teapot & enter the teapot. To see the action documention from within Paradise, use learn to create.

• create: Create a new vessel at your current location.
• enter: Enter a visible vessel.
• leave: Exit the parent vessel.
• become: Become a visible vessel.
• take: Move a visible vessel into a child vessel.
• drop: Move a child vessel into the parent vessel.
• warp: Move to a distant vessel.
• note: Add a description to the current parent vessel.
• pass: Add a passive note to the current parent vessel.
• program: Add an automation program to a vessel, making it available to the use command.
• learn: Read documentation for each action, or see a list of action.
• use: Trigger a vessel's program.
• transform: Change your current vessel name.
• move: Move a visible vessel into another visible vessel.

Scripting

Paradise has a small lisp dialect that allows for basic scripting, you can find the list of functions here. If you would like to display the name of acting vessel for example.

note you are the (host) in the (host:parent). # you are the ghost in the house.

You can access class methods like this:

note you carry (len (host:inventory)) items.

You can also do basic math like:

note (mul 4 (add 2 1))

Extras

• This application supports the Ecosystem Theme.
• Support this project through Patreon.
• See the License file for license rights and limitations (MIT).
• Pull Requests are welcome!