Kamishibai Printer

Story Lines per board New board when the cast moves Layout Paper

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Route through the choices: first option each time

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How it works. The story is a published Paper Theatre script (misc/55-paper-theatre/stories/), parsed and played through by the theatre's own engine (vn.js) along the route you pick at each choice. Every stop on that route is printed exactly once, word for word as the script has it, with its citation chips; nothing is added or summarised. The stops are grouped into boards: a new board whenever the picture changes (a new background or illustration, a flashback or a colour grade, a chapter card, and if you leave the box ticked, someone entering, leaving or moving), and otherwise after the number of lines you choose. Each front is one SVG made from the theatre's drawings (art.js): the background, the cast in their slots and faces, or the event illustration, placed the way the stage places them, with the stage's dimming of the cast members who do not speak on that board and a flat, even version of its canvas grain (the same blend at its average strength, so the tones match without printing the speckle); weather particles and the painted look are left out. In kamishibai the performer reads from behind the stack, so the text for board 1 is printed on the back of the last board and the text for board k on the back of board k−1, each with a small copy of the picture the audience is looking at and a pull mark where the board is drawn out. Nothing leaves your browser; your settings are remembered in localStorage.