MakeShift

MakeShift is a tool for making procedurally generated text based on predefined phrase templates.

This is a dependency-free, pure Python package that includes a simple specification for how to write MakeShift-style phrase templates and an interpreter for generating text from those templates.

MakeShift is designed for dungeon masters, writers and storytellers of all kinds to find inspiration when making new { characters | settings | stories | worlds | anything }.

Installation

MakeShift can be installed from PyPi using Pip. I recommend doing this in a Python virtual environment.

> pip install makeshift

You can call makeshift from the command-line and provide a phrase template file to generate a random result.

> makeshift /path/to/file/my_template.txt

You can also download the MakeShift repository from https://github.com/MJoseph1234/makeshift

There's a number of template files in the examples/ directory of the repository. You can expand on those or use them as a blueprint to write your own.