A branching version of the [exquisite corpse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse) game, forked from the [exquisite branch](https://git.xpub.nl/kamo/exquisite-branch) drawing app developed for [SI17](https://issue.xpub.nl/17/).
Write something, upload it and send the link to someone else: they will continue from your excerpt. With a catch: if you send to just one person the chain will continue linearly, but send it to more people and things will start branching in different directions.
Could be a writing machine to work on the collective pubblication for the graduation, inspired by what [Kim wrote here](https://pad.xpub.nl/p/gradcollectivexpub).
## Install
Clone the repository.
```
git clone https://git.xpub.nl/kamo/exex.git
```
Create a virtual environment.
```
python3 -m venv venv
```
Install the requirements with `pip` and the `requirements.txt` file.
```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
Create an `.env` file in the root folder of the project with the following variables:
```
DEBUG=True
FLASK_ENV=development
FLASK_APP=exquisite_branch
```
Before running the app for the first time, be sure to initialize the database. __Watch out:__ this will delete the previous instance of the database along with its contents!
```
flask init-db
```
After initializing the database you can run the flask application
```
flask run
```
## Overview
Exex saves contents in a database, and join them together in a branching version of the exquisite corpse.
The original exquisite corpse data structure is something similar to a linked list, where every drawing is connected to the previous one. Contents in _exex_ are saved in a database with the same principle.
