Narrative Planner

The Project

Narrative Planner is a collaborative story telling tool. It allows multiple users to connect in realtime, and build out complex, branching stories.

The Challenge

There was a lot of challenges in this project due to the complexity, but one of the most difficult was working in a realtime enviroment. Having multiple users connected to a single session means there is a lot of opportunities for race conditions and other weird states of data. We spend a lot of time testing, and made sure that the application worked well when multiple people were working in the same view. There was also a lot of work done to make sure that the application was usable on mobile devices and behaved the same as when working on desktop.

The Solution

The end solution was built entirely using Clojure on both the back and front-ends. Working with Clojure was extermely enjoyable, and makes working with the codebase very easy for future additions.