Back from vacation, and the app is finally usable! Better yet, there is a live demo now, so you can poke at the overlay in your browser without installing a thing. Quick runthrough of what changed.

You can add any game you want now. This is the big one, you can point Meister at whatever game you play. Add a game, hand it a name, a wiki address, and the game’s .exe, and the overlay switches to it the moment you launch. Under the hood every guide, chat, and setting got tagged with the game it belongs to, so nothing bleeds between them. Minecraft is still around as the founding test game, seeded on first run, but it is just one row in the ledger now instead of the whole world. I kicked the tires on the new path with Subnautica, and it took.

A game you just added has no offline guides, and making you download an entire wiki before your first question is a rude way to say hello. So Meister does not. Ask about a game it has nothing on and it grabs the relevant wiki pages right then and answers from those. The big download is now a thing you do for full offline coverage, not a toll you pay to get started.What if the guides are empty and the wiki does not have the page either? Last resort: a plain web search. Local guides first, then the live wiki, then the open web. I built it on Brave’s API, got it humming, then realized I had quietly made the app need an API key just to function… swapped Brave for DuckDuckGo, which needs no key. That one change settled the app’s whole character: it works online the second you open it, and earns an offline mode once you download guides.

Almost every game wiki lives on Fandom, and I had built the fetch path against minecraft.wiki, which has a tidy extension that hands you clean article text. Fandom does not have it. So for every Fandom game the fetch ran, reported success, and stored exactly zero articles. Subnautica came back empty every single time and nothing was failing, which is the worst kind of bug. The fix was to sniff whether a wiki has that extension and, when it does not, ask for the rendered page and yank the readable text out of the HTML myself. Subnautica started returning real articles. 👍

For three milestones “Meister Guide” meant a folder of Python you ran from a terminal. Now it is a single Windows .exe you double-click, fonts and database and all. But the .exe is Windows-only and asks you to trust a download, which is a lot for someone who just wants a look. So I built a browser version, the same walnut-and-brass overlay, a working wiki reader, the game switcher, and Ask Meister streaming pre-baked answers with their sources, all from one HTML file with no backend and no key. It ships with Minecraft and Subnautica so you can feel the game switch yourself.

Live at https://hpeen.github.io/MeisterGuide/.