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13 comments:

  1. Nice widget! I appreciate having just one piece of Dramatica to look at, instead of all of it. It's easier to focus on just this question, without all the contextual reminders of all the whole rest of the model.

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  2. Do you have an application of this that I could run on my tablet?

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    1. Do you mean standalone (app)?. This page uses JavaScript and runs in a browser. It needs JavaScript enabled. I don't have an app, even though wrapping the JavaScript in a shell app is possible, the distribution (via app store) is burdensome for something this simple.

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  3. Great little app. Thanks so much for this!

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  4. when will windows version of DRAM 5 come out ?

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  5. Where did you get the list of gist? I'm using Dramatica for Windows so there's no gist list in the near future but I'd like to make an Excel sheet to use.

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  7. Second Mike's suggestion.

    I'm a Windows Dram user and so don't have the gists. Thanks so much for any guidance.

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  8. (Adding this b/c I didn't click 'Notify me' on last! :) )

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  9. MONSTER IN THE HOUSE: (Monster, House, and Sin): A culpable hero is forced to save a trapped group of people from being killed by a monster he inadvertently unleashed.

    GOLDEN FLEECE: (Road, Team, and Prize): A driven hero must lead a group of allies to retrieve a prized possession through a perilous journey that wasn’t what the hero expected.

    OUT OF THE BOTTLE: (Wish, Spell, and Lesson): A covetous hero must learn to undo a spell he wished for before it turns into a curse he can’t undo.

    DUDE WITH A PROBLEM: (Innocent Hero, Sudden Event, Lesson): Am unwitting hero must survive at all costs when he is dragged into a life and death situation he never saw coming and cannot escape.

    RITES OF PASSAGE: (Life Problem. Wrong Way, Acceptance): A troubled hero’s only way to overcome a spiraling life crisis is to defeat his worst enemy – himself.

    BUDDY LOVE: (Incomplete Hero, Counterpart, Complication): An inadequate hero must rise above an extremely difficult situation to be with a uniquely unlikely partner who is the only one capable of bringing him peace.

    WHODUNIT: (Detective, Secret, Dark Turn): A single-minded hero must find the truth to a mystery so intriguing before he is swallowed by the darkness he desperately seeks to expose.

    FOOL TRIUMPHANT: (Fool, Establishment, Transmutation): An innocent hero’s only way to defeat the prejudices of a group is to change himself without losing what made him the group’s target of disdain in the first place -- his uniqueness.

    INSTITUTIONALIZED: (Group, Choice, Sacrifice): An outsider’s only way to save his individuality is by going against the many who wish to integrate him into their fold.

    SUPERHERO: (Special Power, Nemesis, Curse): A uniquely special hero must defeat an opponent with stronger capabilities by using the same powers that disconnect him from the people he hopes to save.

    --I would love to see how Dramatica advocates would create story forms for these GENERIC stories.

    THESE Templates come from "Save the Cat" genres.

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  10. This is an incredibly useful application! Thank you for making it. I am curious, were gists added in the mac version of the program? I am a windows user, and it seems like no one has the mac one nowadays.

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