Yellowood

A text based adventure game writing platform

January 2023

Yellowood started as an editor for text based adventure games (see Yes, Chef!). I was to be the only user, so I hid it behind an admin token that I could set to prove it was me.

I showed to project to a friend of mine and he was more impressed with the editor than the game itself. He suggested that the editor is what I really should be putting out there.

So, after vibe coding started to become a viable way of actually completing a project, I decided to revisit.

Rename and New Features

I named the project Yellowood, a reference to the Robert Frost poem about choosing a path.

After that, I asked Claude to help me with all sorts of things that needed to happen:

  • Add user accounts
  • Add login and home pages
  • Add a user page for managing stories
  • Unify the page styles into a single collection of elements
  • Add a guide page with components

Once I got it to a place that it seemed ready, Claude’s work was done, and mine was starting.

I added a few different games so first time users could see what the site’s aim was.