Dark Forest Program

I wanted to get into a new programming language in 2019, and play with words with my 5-year-old. So I built a program that interprets a folder of text files as a semi-interactive story on the command line, in Rust.

The program "types" out the story as if someone were controlling the terminal, one letter at a time, with some jitter and pauses somewhat mimicking a person.

The program interprets any text within brackets ([]) to be macro commands.

Function	Purpose	Example
time	Insert a pause, by seconds	[time=3]
color	Change the enclosed text's color	[color=green|This is green]
title	Output a title	[title=A Tale of Two Cities]
input	Take a reader's input and save it to a variable for output	[input=your_name|What is your name?]
output	Use an input	[output=your_name]
input=path()	A path input forks to a new text file in the story	[input=path(redpill,bluepill)|Which path will you choose?]

Example

Here is how a story could start:

Behavior

And this is about how it turns out: