Hi! Post other bits of tech, tools, tutorials, guides, whatever, below! Maybe I'll incorporate some of them into the jam's main page, but probably we'll just keep them collected for people to find through the hub!
My go-to tools for converting from MD to other formats are pandoc (of course; https://pandoc.org/) and weasyprint (https://weasyprint.org/).
The powerful Dungeon Scrawl map creator by ProbableTrain exports to SVG, a graphics format with lossless scaling, which may work nicely in ePubs. generates maps quickly and intuitively with perfectly functional PNG export
Another more advanced tool for doing fancy things in Markdown is R Markdown, which gives you the full programming, statistical analysis, and data visualization tools in R, AND it lets you get fancy with LaTeX and more. I got some great feedback on the adventure I made using the Tufte Handout export format, if you're into a classic academic look.
Maybe tangential to the scope of the jam but here's a resource for online play that I wasn't aware of. Maybe once you've got a product you could get it implemented here?
https://fari.app/
This thing is good shit: https://stackedit.io/
In-browser markdown editing that got me started really quick and easily, and exports that look very good.
I’ve liked using https://typora.io/ as my go-to markdown editor (I’ve got to try out ghostwriter now though!)
https://obsidian.md/ is more of a knowledge-base/wiki built on top of a (local) folder of markdown files. Then again, maybe that would be perfect for a solo game!
If you’re planning to release your markdown-based thing free, consider making a website out of it as well! Platen lets you do that. It’s a markdown-based site generator. https://github.com/platenio/platen-template
(I’m a maintainer on it and will be working to add things to it - right now I’m working on an export function that will let you take the site you’ve made, turn it back into a single markdown doc, and export it. In addition to the demo there, you can see it in action in my submission to the jam: https://binarystar.games/ )
I created this for myself https://github.com/thgie/archive.txt. It's essentially a bit of php to transform a bunch of markdown files with wikilinks into a full blown website on the fly. It's probably not super user friendly but I'm here to help if anybody wants to tinker with it.
☺️ Much of luck everybody!