jamie / dimityjones

electronic escape novel requiring readers to solve puzzles before reading the next chapter

Dimity Jones In Puzzle Castle

An Electronic Escape Novel in Eighty-Nine Ciphertexts

A fictional story, contained in a single text file, that requires the reader to solve puzzles as they go along, and to use each chapter's solution as a key to decipher the next.

Any and all feedback is welcome, from positive to negative, from the sweeping to the picayune. Let me know what confuses or frustrates you -- and especially let me know if (where) you get stuck. [email protected]

Note

While Dimity Jones is still in its debugging/proofreading phase, please refrain from sharing it more widely or putting it any (other) public place.

How to Work - jamie_ca

1. Clone this repository to your local machine.
2. Ensure Ruby 3.0+ is installed on your machine.
3. Run ruby check.rb in the terminal to start decoding, and after each step.

The check script will set up a stub solution script lib/chapter_01.rb (or similar for future chapters) and automatically run the script for the current chapter to decode the next chapter. Scripts should assume they receive file input from STDIN and output to STDOUT.

When you have a script that successfully decodes the next chapter, ruby check.rb will give you a ✅ for that chapter and move on to the next one.

(I'm also assuming that each chapter continues the pattern of using ##### to delimit the chapter text from the solution, and have a helper script feed.rb to only pass the encoded payload for each chapter to the solver scripts.)

Good luck!