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oh no thats awful, i'm sorry for your loss. <3

Thanks for the clever addition! I guess Im an advanced beginner now? :3

No problem I hope that helps :))

In my case I don't have a "prev" button, so I didn't do anything specific to make that happen, but yeah that's definitely something you have to take into account if you want a "prev" button.

For now I have a "reset" button with a very simple script to manually set the slider to 0 whenever I want, while I'm still figuring out how to add more stuff. I don't know yet how I'm gonna replace that in the final project! :p

Sure, I'll try to explain my process :) long post incoming!

I'm using the chat contraption as a phone text app. Whenever the player clicks "next", a new message appears. That's cool! but I want my player to manually send the new messages on the right only. I want the messages on the left to appear on their own after a delay.

So I have a chat contraption called "chat1" and its corresponding button called "next". I added some lines in the "next" button script so that stuff happen. I'm sure there's a more compact way of doing this, but it works so I'm not complaining!

on click do
    play["click"]
    # show next chat
    chat1.next[]
    # add 1 to the counter (stored in slider)
    progress.value: progress.value+1
    # trigger the slider's "change" event
    progress.event["change" progress.value]
    view[]
end

As you can see in the button's script, I also have a slider called "progress". It starts at 0 and its Max is 17 (16 being the total number of messages in my chat contraption). You might want the slider be invisible in the final project (Widgets>Show None, & also Widgets>Locked, while you're at it).

My slider's script looks like this:

on change val do
    # call a "boop" event whenever the slider's "change" event is triggered
    scenePrologue.event["boop"]
end

I created a new event, "boop", that I use in the card level script to check on the phone conversation progress. "scenePrologue" is the current card's name. I'm not gonna show the whole card's script but I use something like this:

on boop do
    # check for chat convo completion
    if progress.value~1
        # increase value to avoid getting stuck in a loop
        progress.value: progress.value+1
        # pause to make the text message more realistic
        sleep[80]
        # show next chat
        chat1.next[]
    elseif ...
...

From there on, I had to match the slider's counter and the number of messages in my conversation so that all the messages on the left appear on their own after a delay, just like magic! :)

Of course you can use the counter to do something more than just revealing the next chat messages. You can use it to trigger a dialog for example, or to go to the next scene, just like this:

...
elseif progress.value~16
    progress.value: progress.value+1
    # fire next sequence
    eval[dialogStorage.widgets.script2.text () 1]
    pt.setup[deck sceneCafe
        "!show saya neutral offleft"
    ]
    go[sceneCafe "BoxIn"]
...

(if anything is unclear please don't hesitate to ask more questions.)

I wrote a lot of script today. I felt a bit frustrated at times, there were some major oopsies (like accidentally creating 777 canvases. don't do that, it makes decker very slow LOL), in the end I managed to find a way to achieve roughly what I wanted (yay!) and that involved a lot of frantically browsing the decker community forums. Which I encourage you to do, a lot, especially when you're stuck.

I also used the chat contraption, it's very fun! I combined it with an invisible slider that counts the messages (or rather every click on the "next" button), so that things happen when you reach a certain message. It's easy to set up and it does cool stuff! Still have a bit more to do with the chat contraption/slider, but I am done for today.

oh wow it looks great!! I love your style :)

Hiii, I have made quite some progress today. I drew sprites for two whole characters, and a backdrop (very wip still) of a café. I think a good chunk of the game will take place there (not sure yet, I haven't done much planning, I'm going with the flow here...) 

I also wrote some dialogs and scripts for a little scene! it was supposedly just an excuse to see if everything was working well together (puppeteer and dialogizer etc.), but i think it will end up in the final project. Meet Saya! she's your crush :)

Thank you so much!! I was missing the part where you define c, I have no clue how that actually works but it works perfectly :')

Hey I have a small issue, I added a column called "color" to assign a color to each of my characters. From there, I added a line in the deck script that would extract the color value from the table and make it the color of the text that appears in dialogizer (with the .fcolor attribute). I tried mirroring how you handled it with the talk value in your lines of script, but I must be doing something wrong because it doesn't work. I cannot for the life of me figure it out on my own.. can I get some help please ToT

Oh awesome!!! This is so useful, thank you for sharing with us <3

Hi! I have used Decker before, although it's been a while so I'm quite rusty. I have a vague idea about a short story that centers around a rock band/concert (as I've been listening to a lot of rock music lately lol). I think I'm gonna go with new characters, because I feel like it! so exciting!

The only thing I'm worried about is how I'm going to add a soundtrack, as I have never done that in any of my previous projects... but something tells me all the answers are already in the Decker community forums, so we will see how it goes :)

Wow, thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed answer! This helps a lot! Especially all your tips to make characters feel more fleshed out and interesting. I definitely agree that as real people are complex, so should be fictional characters.

I have heard about plot structures in literature study classes, which I am sure is useful in some way, but I am more interested by your perspective as a writer. I don't know how to make those structures "come to life", so to say. So yeah, I think I'd like it if you expanded a bit more on the 5-act structure. Thank you again! :>

Hey, first of all thanks for creating this board! :>

I have played my fair share of VN, but I've basically zero experience with writing for a VN... I was wondering if anyone has general tips or even resources (like written articles, videos) on how to get started, what's your process, etc. Literally any advice is welcome!!

prompt was "little guy transcendant" :>

amazing! i wish i could zap annoying people irl lol

Fellow cameo :)

Hey, this is very beautiful and well-written! I can definitely relate to the self-doubt / overthinking /lack of energy when it comes to reaching out to other people. But still, I hope you feel good about the metaphorical garden you've cultivated so far :)

Happy new year btw!

"Gwen can sword" haha!

that was great :3

Thanks for checking it out! :)

Hey this is really cool! I love it :>

Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for taking the time to write this comment! it means a lot to me :>

Although I'm sorry that my words made you sad, it's good to know they resonate with other people. We're in this together!

Thanks Millie :) <3

Thank you hehe!

I see! I use cornstarch sometimes, but I'm not a big fan of thick textures in general. Guess I'm more of a soup person then :)

Yes, I see exactly what you mean... sometimes, it requires an external eye to have a sort of wake up call and realize none of it was (or should be) normal. At least that's how it went for me, but I'm not quite there yet :')

Glad that you liked it! Hopefully I'll make more in the future haha

I'm glad you liked it!! That poem is dear to me and I spent a lot of time trying to make it look fancy haha. And I still debated whether or not I should publish it at all lol. I don't know if I would've liked it as a standalone thing, so I think it's a good compromise to include it in this zine :>

awww this is so cute! big fan of your little guys :)

Hey, if you scroll up a little, you will have your answer :p

Ooh this will come in handy!! :D

Yay! happy birthday Decker!!!

Aww thanks! :>

Yes! Decker is amazing! :D

Nothing to see here except peak wiggling~

thanks again for your kind comments :D

Thank you :) Im kinda sorry that you relate haha

Thanks for checking this out!!!

those words are well deserved hehe! :)

Hey, this is neat! I like the atmosphere!

I couldn't help but notice that some characters in your text fields appear as ?, when it's supposed to be é for example. I have also had this issue while trying to write stuff in French in Decker... I made a custom version of Decker's default font to include diacritics commonly used in French by replacing some less used characters. It looks like this (left is Decker's default font, right is my custom version)

(I tried to match them with the characters on a french keyboard btw, like ~ is ctrl+alt+é on a french keyboard, so it makes sense to the eye...)

I can share the font if that's something you (or other people) are interested in! I also want to extend those modifications to the 3 Olympiad fonts in the future but don't ask when cuz I don't know

hey, i liked this a lot! your writing style is nice :)

i enjoyed this a lot although i'm bad at riddles :)

Soooo cozy! Your animations are so neat, it's like magic!

I really really like all the details in the background... and the hidden little guys :)

Ooh I'm a crow? very nice game, love the atmosphere :)