Hehe, the project is not dead, but to be honest, I have barely touched it since this post :/

Are you more interested in getting to write and to share your own (interactive) stories, or to read a story?

My initial idea was that a dialogue-driven story editor is the main thing, and I'll provide a simple small example story to demonstrate how it works. So that people could start writing their own stories. But then I thought that maybe it would be better to write a longer, proper story. Also, reading a proper story might be more inspiring for people to start writing their own stories... So, every now and then I've been drafting an extended example story in my mind. Then, pretty easily I get story ideas which would need more functionality added to the story engine. But on the other hand, I'd like to leave these for future version, and to start with a version 1.0 which allows only moving, talking and delivering items.

So, at the moment, what needs to be done to get TaruPaja 1.0 out is:
- some minor fixes and additions into the code (something like 4 - 6 hours of work)
- writing a proper example story (maybe 1 - 2 days of writing)

This is so very typical for me - I have a nearly-finished project, and I think "OK, I'll finish that just a bit later on, first I have to deal with these urgent things at hand" - then weeks turn into months, and new urgent things keep piling up... But I haven't abandoned TaruPaja, I'll be back to the project, yeah =)