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title: The Beacon Ledger variants
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short_description: Four controlled branching-story variants from VN Studio
The Beacon Ledger: four controlled variants
The Beacon Ledger is a tiny synthetic branching story used as the worked example of VN Studio 1.0.0, a local editor and offline HTML exporter for branching visual-novel prototypes. VN Studio 1.0.0 documents a manual editing workflow; its AI-assisted generation features are not part of what is shown here.
This Space holds a 2×2 set of controlled variants:
- F0 / F1: two wordings of the final choice (neutral vs. consequence-framed)
- O0 / O1: two texts for the two endings
Every variant (F0-O0/ … F1-O1/) is the unmodified offline HTML export (Web ZIP, unpacked) produced by VN Studio. Apart from their titles, the variants differ only in those fields, and the images are byte-identical across variants. The small menu page (index.html) in front of them was written by hand. When it serves the pages, Hugging Face adds a short script and social-preview tags to the HTML head; the files stored in this repository are unchanged.
This is a demonstration of how branching stimuli for studies of player choice can be prepared, checked and shared. It is not a study, and the games do not collect any data from players.
- Software (archived): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24201796
- Source code: https://github.com/Taewan627/vn-studio
All characters, text and images are synthetic. The example artwork was written as SVG code with an AI assistant, and the variant wording was drafted with an AI assistant; both were checked by the authors. VN Studio itself was developed with the help of AI coding assistants.
Known issue: the title on each variant's title screen is not centred (vn-studio#1). It is left as exported, because the variants are unmodified exports of version 1.0.0.