Brandon Tsueda

Creative Software Project

Bratsu's Story Generator

A C# Windows Forms app that turns a few prompts into short genre-aware stories, then lets the user copy or export the result. It started as an early programming project and was later modernized with .NET 8.

The app is intentionally simple: pick a genre, provide a few words, and generate a short story. The more useful part of the project was revisiting it with better structure, cleaner generation logic, copy support, export options, audio controls, and a portable Windows release.

Not every portfolio project needs to be an infrastructure platform. This one shows that I can return to old code, improve the user experience, package it properly, and leave it in a better state.

What changed in the modernization

  • Updated the app for .NET 8 and a cleaner Windows build.
  • Added genre-aware story templates and randomized prompts.
  • Added dark mode, audio controls, copy support, and formatted text export.
  • Improved the interface so the project feels like a finished utility instead of a class demo.