Fictional Messenger
Fictional Messenger makes it easy to display fictional chats & text messages with the appearance of real-world messaging platforms. It is intended for use in fiction where writers want to display conversations as if they were happing via text messages or chat apps.
Current Status
Fictional Messenger is in beta stage. The basic features work, but more planned features and conversation styles are still in development.
Development info
This repository is a monorepo. Here's a quick map of its contents:
- docs: Fictional Messenger's documentation
- fictional-messenger-app: The web application
- fictional-messenger-cli: A command line version of the renderer
- fictional-messenger-renderer: The renderer module used by the app and CLI versions.
Check out the README.md files of each of the above for more info.
Examples
(Note: these examples appear as screenshots since GitLab doesn't permit CSS in their Markdown pages. Check out Fictional Messenger itself for live HTML.)
SMS Style
Adapted quote from Terry Pratchett, Going Postal.
Discordant Style
Adapted quote from Terry Pratchett, A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction.