fossil garden
Basically, it would be nice to have variables that changes value depending on a choice in the terminal, which can then be referred back to later on. It would make text adventure branching less tedious.
For example, if a player chooses to pick up a sword, we can create a variable "sword = true", and then towards the end, we can check if sword was true and depending on that, the player fights the villain with a sword. Otherwise they fight the villain barehanded.
hushed chasm
Yes I would love something like this!! I would’ve asked for it earlier but I wonder how hard a feature like this would be to develop
If this were to be added I would love for outside triggers to be able to update the variable too, so the terminal text can change based on if you’ve picked up a certain star or been through a certain player trigger! (But if not just having the variables in the terminals would still be incredibly useful)
spare heron
If this could also affect the text on answers, it'd be an amazing way to mimic those *text options for unread texts, which would then be changed back to text. I actually did this, by hand, and it was excruciating
velvet scarab
If this could also affect the text on answers, it'd be an amazing way to mimic t...
I havent tried it in puzzle editor but this is the implementation for Gehenna that should work here too, in theory:
%b'VarName' will show * once, then save VarName flag in memory, and all %b markers sharing the same VarName will not dispplay * anymore
That only would work for terminal text, not answer buttons
spare heron
It seems to somewhat work. Not entirely sure how it functions though, and the way it displays is very weird. I'll test it more later
velvet scarab
Oh actually it might also be responsible for changing typing speed and for ------------------------------ line, since this is all for Gehenna