Hello @wednesdaymac and welcome! Really great questions, and I’m more than happy to answer them…and I just finished a meeting with Melanie (and Chris and Stephen) - so yes, all are involved in the development. In fact, you may find that opening up Narrova, and setting the Agent to StoryGuide will be all you need – it’s the 2025 version of Melanie’s previous “StoryWeaver” app, complete with all her teachings and guidance (and approved by her–so have at it!)
Subtxt/Dramatica is the narrative platform we are building. The name may eventually change, but for now it’s meant to signify the merger between our two companies (Narrative First and Write Bros), with the intention of creating products that leverage Dramatica theory and AI for the years to come.
Narrova is the first application: it’s our multi-agentic narrative intelligence trained on all things Dramatica theory, including anything and everything written, said, or even thought about by Melanie, Chris, and anyone else involved in the development of the theory over the past 30 years. As we train and evaluate it constantly, iterating and improving daily, it’s less a “wrapper” around ChatGPT, and more an invaluable intelligence that you can tap into for a variety of different use cases.
Some of what it can do may seem “ghost in the machine” as it is created with the future in mind; namely, one where UI gives way to natural language interaction between user and AI. So yes, it can do everything the older Dramatica application can do–you just have to ask.
Part of our meeting involved going over the original algorithms that justify and create the Storyforms found in the original Dramatica theory. As we’re now all on the same page, you’ll soon see instant access to all 32K available both in Narrova and in the brand new Storyform Builder (which is essentially, a 2025-version of the ol’ Story Engine Settings window).
Subtxt is the application I built prior to the merger this year. It leverages the decades I spent learning and teaching theory as well as my practical application of such in the film and animation industry. You can think of it as the update to the Dramatica application in that you can deterministically work your way through all the different aspects of the Storyform in familiar windows, and push button interfaces. it also includes, among other things, hundreds of additional professionally curated Storyforms based on all our years evaluating and analyzing film, novels, plays, etc. (650+ of them to be more precise).
We are in the process of migrating the Subtxt application over to the Subtxt/Dramatica platform. For now, they are separate apps, but your subscription to one automatically grants you access to the other. You only need to contact us directly to manually setup the additional access.
For additional information you might reading through the documentation helpful here: Subtxt/Dramatica® as well as subscribing to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@subtxt-dramatica I do livestreams going over the latest features every Wednesday (and sometimes Sunday).
Welcome again, and if you have any follow-up questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!
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