Ten Dollar Adventure, an interactive kids' book on entrepreneurship

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Ten Dollar Adventure, an interactive kids' book on entrepreneurship

TLDR: I authored and developed an interactive fiction book introducing kids to entrepreneurship and money management. There are digital (Web Book, Audiobook) and physical (Paperback, Hardcover) formats. Read an entire storyline/adventure of the Web Book, no login required here: < https://tendollaradventure.com/sample/ > --- I authored and developed an interactive children's book about entrepreneurship and money management. The journey started with Twinery, the open-source tool for making interactive fiction, discovered right here on HN. The tool kindled memories of reading CYOA style books when I was a kid, and I thought the format would be awesome for writing a story my kids could follow along, incorporating play money to learn about transactions as they occurred in the story. Twinery is a fantastic tool, and I used it to layout the story map. I really wanted to write the content of the story in Emacs and Org Mode however. Thankfully, Twinery provided the ability to write custom Story Formats that defined how a story was exported. I wrote a Story Format called Twiorg that would export the Twinery file to an Org file and then a Org export backend (ox-twee) to do the reverse. With these tools, I could go back and forth between Emacs and Twinery for authoring the story. The project snowballed and I ended up with the book in digital and physical book formats. The Web Book is created using another Org export backend. Ten Dollar Adventure: < https://tendollaradventure.com > Sample the Web Book (one complete storyline/adventure): < https://tendollaradventure.com/sample/ > I developed another nifty feature that lets readers of the physical book access an online dashboard of achievements anonymously using secret "magic words" in lieu of requiring personal information. I couldn't muster the effort to write a special org export backend for the physical books unfortunately and used a commercial editor to format these. Twiorg: < https://github.com/danishec/twiorg > ox-twee: < https://github.com/danishec/ox-twee > Previous HN post on writing the transaction logic using an LLM in Emacs: < https://blog.tendollaradventure.com/automating-story-logic-w... > Twinery 2: < https://twinery.org/ > and discussion on HN: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32788965 >