Posted December 06, 2023 by Snek
#tooling #devlog #system engineering
Shortly before the Yuri Jam ends, I'm even able to push out a little update! This update adds a history button so you can re-read older lines. It also represents major changes to the backend dialog editor and parser of this whole thing, which I'm really proud of. Sadly because of time constraints I wasn't able to preserve the save functionality bug free, so for now the load button is gone in the main menu, but since the game is under an hour long, I hope that's ok. I need to fix this in the future tho
So yes, I added a pause and history button, and internally, I rewrote events, control node references to be abstracted and generalized more easily, and a few features that work but aren't used in the game: An evaluator to insert variables and function return values into the text on screen, and even more control over the expressions and other events of individual lines of dialog!
If you wanna check out the initial submission, I've left it as an exe on the project page :3