The Basics

Wordz is a random sentence generator. It makes sentences by randomly selecting words from lists called word banks and sticking them together.

Here are three examples of Word Banks:

The word banks that the words are chosen from are determined by special scripts called sentences.

A sentence might look like this:

When Wordz compiles this sentence, it works through the items in the order they are connected. After the 'Start' point, the first item is a blue box or word bank called 'Verbs'. Wordz picks the first word randomly from that word bank and remembers it.

The next item is the white box, the colour identifies this as a text item, which means that whatever is written in the box will be the next word to be added to the sentence. Words are taken from the next two word banks in the same way as the first.

The end result could be any of the following:

Stop that yellow taxi
Stop that red motorbike
Chase that yellow horse
Hail that orange jelly
See that blue taxi
... and so on, with many possible combinations.

Wordz allows you to create and edit your own word banks and sentences.
Wordz allows you to record it's output, either as text or within HTML pages.
Wordz has many customisable features, such as output text styles, background pictures, fonts, shadows, reading speeds and colours.

Wordz has many advanced techniques for making complex sentences, such as branching and jumping.

branching allows you to introduce points in the sentence where it can branch in a different direction.

This sentence demonstrates branching:

The text item 'that' has two black lines coming from it, one going to 'colours' and one going to 'nouns'. At this point, Wordz will randomly pick one of these branches to follow, so the next word could be from either word bank. If it chooses 'colours' then the next word bank will be 'nouns'.

You can branch from one item to many others. Each branch has an equal chance of being randomly picked.

 

 

This sentence demonstrates jumping:

The last item in this sentence is a green box. The colour tells us that this item is another sentence. Wordz will then compile this new sentence and add the output to that of the first one. The only limitation is that a sentence cannot jump to itself. Once Wordz has finished the sentence it has jumped to, it comes back to the original sentence and finishes compiling it.

Wordz has other advanced features such as Control Items. These allow Wordz to do special actions when compiling a sentence. A useful one is the <A/AN> tag, which is replaced by the word A or AN depending on the spelling of the next word to be picked, so you can make sure you get 'A RABBIT' or 'AN ELEPHANT'.