VowKeeper
Built with Svelte, VowKeeper holds a special place in my heart, despite me eventually abandoning the project.
It’s an online “Virtual Tabletop” (VTT) for playing roleplaying games, specifically the solo journaling game Ironsworn. It takes a unique approach to the VTT concept by focusing on the journaling aspect of the game, and is essentially a rich text editor with a built-in character sheet and a dice roller.
The idea I wanted to explore with VowKeeper was the ability to embed game-specific content directly into the journal as you wrote. For example, you could roll the dice for a specific in-game skill, then simply drag the result from the dice roller into the document, embedding it as a small widget. The widget could even be interacted with to further act on the roll and would update automatically if the underlying roll changed.
For the tech, I evaluated various text-editing libraries like PromiseMirror, Quill, and Editor.js, but ultimately settled on Tiptap which I found to have the right level of modularity and easy of use.
I still strongly believe in the concept of a document-focused VTT with rich embeds. I think it allows a level of flow and flexibility that I have still not seen elsewhere, and would love to do something similar in a future project.