WyrmStar Docs

This is an early test build, so treat this page as a living doc, not a manual bolted on after the fact. Back to the WyrmStar page for downloads.

Getting started

The first screen you see is Create or Open a project. A project is a folder on your own disk — nothing is uploaded anywhere unless you turn on GitHub sync yourself. Give it a name, and you're in.

The binder

The panel on the left is your manuscript's table of contents: folders and documents, dragged and dropped into whatever order and hierarchy makes sense for your book. Click a document to write in it. Right-click for rename, delete, and other housekeeping. Deleted things go to Trash, not straight to oblivion.

The story bible

Below the manuscript binder sit three collections: Glossary, Character Book, and World Book. Add an entry for a character, place, or made-up term, give it a name and any aliases it goes by, and WyrmStar quietly underlines every mention of it in your prose as you write — click one to jump straight to that entry. It's for reference, not required bookkeeping: an entry with nothing written in it yet is still a working link.

Writing & formatting

On purpose, there isn't much here: bold, italic, and highlight, nothing else. No font pickers, no tables, no auto-formatting fighting you while you type. It's a typewriter with better undo.

Version history

Every time you stop typing for a bit, WyrmStar checkpoints your work automatically — under the hood, it's a real git commit, though the app never bothers you with that word. Open a document's history to see every past checkpoint, compare any two side by side, and restore an old version without losing the current one (restoring always makes a new checkpoint first). You can also freeze the current text as a named "variant" — a snapshot you can come back to later without it cluttering your main line of history.

Compiling your manuscript

File → Compile Manuscript walks the binder and stitches everything into one document: plain text, Markdown, or a real .docx, with options for a title page, scene separators, and which folders to include. Story-bible links never leak into the output — what you compile is exactly the prose you wrote.

Themes

Preferences has sixteen palettes: the 1-bit default, a few CRT phosphor monitors, some period hardware references (BIOS blue, drafting-table blueprint, newsprint halftone), and Famicom, which breaks from the pack entirely and runs real NES colours across the whole interface. Purely cosmetic — pick whatever's comfortable for the hours you'll spend looking at it.

Backup & GitHub sync

Project → Backup mirrors your project to a second location — an external drive, a synced folder — with no account needed. Project → Sync Settings connects a project to a private GitHub repository instead, so you can pick it up on a second machine; it's entirely optional; "local-only" is a real, supported choice, not a nag screen. If the same document changes on two machines in ways that can't both be kept, WyrmStar stops and asks you which to keep rather than guessing.