I tried writing an interactive novel and accidentally built a platform

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A few months ago I tried to write an interactive fiction novel.It turned into a software project.As the story grew, managing the structure quickly became difficult: branches, conditions, narrative state… everything started getting messy.At some point I opened Visual Studio to try to solve the problem for myself. The initial idea was simple: separate the prose from the runtime logic that drives the story.That experiment slowly turned into a small ecosystem called iepub:• a structured format for interactive books • a reader runtime that interprets that format • and a visual editor designed for writing interactive fictionThe editor tries to feel like a normal writing tool (something closer to G

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