HI Rigachupe.
Very innovative use of Adventuron. I actually know one user that has been doing something very similar so it's interesting to see you arrive at something very similar independently.
I would ask that you don't use copyrighted brand names of book series in the demo, in your itch posts, and on the demo page.
Please refer to this genre as "gamebook", which is a safe descriptive category.
You also don't have to put my name next to Adventuron. I'm fine with the Adventuron credit.
Chris
Just want to say it might be easier to put your on_describe {} blocks inside the page directly....
For pages, I made on_describe {} implicit inside the {}.
001_start : page "You are in a room." {
: add_choice "Choice text 1" {
// Do something
}
: add_choice "Choice text 2" {
// Do something
}
: add_choice "Choice text 3" {
// Do something
}
: choose "Choose ..." ;
}That is nice, thanks for the tip. But something is not allowed this way. Look at this code please, i explain underneath what is strange looking to me :
pages {
001_start : page "Page 1" {
: print "This is start page" ;
: add_choice "goto page 2" {
: goto "002_some_event" ;
}
: gosub "select" ;
};
002_some_event : page "Page 2" {
: print "This is second page" ;
: press_any_key ;
: if (true) {
: goto "003_the_end" ; -> works only when inside if or choice
}
//: goto "003_the_end" ; -> why not directly?
//: done; -> ok no needed
};
003_the_end : page "Page 3" {
: print "This is third page" ;
//: done; -> ok, no needed
};
}
subroutines {
select : subroutine {
: choose "what now?" ;
: done ;
}
}
I understand the ":done;" can be deleted, that is fine. But the "goto page" command cannot exist without if or choice. There are sometimes pages where you do not have any choice just show some text, wait for 'press any key' and 'jump to this page'. This can be added as "choice" or "always true if statement" workaround... Is there any possibility that the goto command in future version would work without if/choice?
Yes i already entered with an interesting idea. It is about the way objects from scene are dissasembled and reassembled as something else :D. For example you find and icecube and tea. You can split icecube into ice and cube objects. Then you can combine ice+tea = icetea. The way it works gives a lot of possibilities to mess with and have fun in the game. Also i finally started to use the new way of room definitions so the code is more readable.
Sadly, again time is short and there are new issues that i need to solve. So when i get to it the jam could be at the end dammit :-/.
Chris would you consider please adding vertical scrollbar into the adventuron IDE? It would be faster to click and drag the scrollbar than scrolling with mouse or key pressing. And maybe highlighting with some color small parts of the scrolling area to indicate where are booleans defined, where is on_start, where is on_describe etc... so you just click and the IDE jumps there. This is good when you write new boolean variable somewhere in the code for the first time and then you need to scroll manually (or ctrl+f search) to boolean section to define it there. Or if it is too much then an easier method would be alt+left and alt+right to jump between the defined sections.
I vote for vertical scroll bars. I asked for it years ago (well, it seems like that), but they haven't eventuated yet. Without vertical scroll bars, you don't know where you are within the code or what proportion of the total code is taken up by the visible area. You can't scroll without losing your selection, unless you want to spend ages scrolling around with the mouse wheel. And you can't scroll quickly to other parts of the code if you have an error and the section shortcut menu is missing.
Vertical scrolbars have been added to the beta version.
As far as the other requests, they are noted, but fairly low priority for now as it's a lot of time investment to write a custom renderer for the scroll bars. I will try to work on better jump navigation, but I maintain that CONTROL + F, then typing the name of the section is likely faster (or ultra marginally slower) than any jump list changes I can make.
Hi Rigachupe.
I can see that Doodley the Ducktective and your other new game both have the same "upload settings" problem with Itch.
Please pay attention to section 9 in this document (games should launch in full screen, be mobile friendly, and select "portrait" mode).
https://adventuron.io/documentation/uploading.html
Also, your gamebook style game seems to have too much text for the "border" mode. Are you extending the "TWO" theme? If so, that's not ideal for the type of game you are writing. I recommend that you set the number of columns to 72 in your theme. You might be better off with a more readable font too.
themes {
your_theme : theme {
theme_settings {
columns = 72
columns_mobile = 40
font = plotter_bold_extended
}
}
}Please write to me at info@adventuron.io and I'd like to work with you to show you all the different display options as it does seem that you are sticking to the TWO theme. If that's out of choice, don't worry about it, but I did notice that it's not optimized for high text games, so I do think at the very least, you need to increase the columns that are displayed, even if keeping everything else the same.
Chris
I tested it and it has to do something with the html element of list i quess. I remember when my attempts to fix it in java htmleditor and it was working very weird. The <li> and </li> elements inserted into document added newline. Maybe it is similiar to this in some way.
themes->themesettings and there :
lister_choices {
gamebook_choice_list_style = inline_no_question
gamebook_choice_list_style_mobile = inline_no_question
}
When i set this as no_list, inline or inline_no_question it works, no additional newline inserted after entering invalid choice.
When i change it to : default, list, numeric_list, numeric_list_always, alpha_list it adds newline after entering invalid choice.
Something else is wrong with the choices. You can download and test it from here : https://rigachupe.itch.io/adventuron-engine-tutorials and there look for file "bugged - GameBookTemplate_20200803_1605.txt"
To test the bug you start in forest. Click line 2. and you see 'just test 1' message. Click line 9. and you see 'just test 8.'. Now click 1. to move into river page. Click 3. to return back to forest page. Now there is one more option on line 2. Click 3. and it shows 'just test 3' and should be 'just test 1'. Even clicking on 1. should move to river but instead it shows 'just test 1'. Seems to me like clicking the row uses the text as if entered into prompt? Because when i enter with keyboard 1,3 or 10 it works normally.
