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http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/minild-48\/?action=preview&uid=5751<\/a><\/p>\n

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Why:
\n I didn’t have a lot of time this weekend but after seeing people progress on irc saturday night (especially rxi and bitslap *drool*) i wanted to give it a shot anyways. Since i only got around 24 hours left i settled on a dialog text adventure. Also i wanted to make a narrative based game for quite a while.<\/p>\n

How:
\n As usual i made my entry using C#. Overriding paint events of pictureboxes to render text in a custom fashion, being annoyed by unprecise measuretext methods leaving behind ugly spaces were all part of this. But generally it worked fine. I spend a few hours working on the parser\/backend. It is a simple token driven script or markup language.<\/p>\n

And it is modable! \ud83d\ude00<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Texty<\/a>

Texty text<\/p><\/div>\n

Example:<\/p>\n 

:Narrator\n #narration This text will be describtive about the character you're talking to. Also the Narrator has to exist. it is the fallback 'person' when you end a dialog. the #narration keyword is mandatory, but will be ignored for the Narrator.\n #intro The \"hello\" text of the character. #intro is a [keyword]\n #keyword is a reply to a keyword determined in [brackets]\n #brackets Keywords in brackets will automatically be added as soon as you read them. You can also learn of [persons] that way.\n #persons will be identified by (Paran Thesis). To talk to another person, you have to [end] the conversation.\n #end will end the conversation\n \n :Paran Thesis\n #narration She has an round body and is generally nice and [helpful].\n #intro Hello there, what can i do for you?\n #helpful Do you want some [food] or [drinks]?\n #food Here, have some pie!\n #drinks Have a beer!\n #end Goodbye.<\/pre>\n 
Open the “Dialog” file residing next to the .exe in a texteditor and paste the markup text above (play the game before that if you don’t want to get spoiled) and create your own dialog adventure! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n 
3 things though:
\n 1. remember that #narration, #intro and #end are mandatory keywords.
\n 2. remember that every keyword needs text
\n 3. the win\/end condition is currently hardcoded, so sorry about that, but feel free to look at the source \":)\"<\/p>\n 
Furthermore, if you are interested in more features like conditional replies (yes\/no), location based persons\/traveling, character-bound keywords and possibly more puzzle features, leave a comment or come discuss in irc or twitter.<\/p>\n 
Lastly, there is no error handling as of yet, so if your script doesn’t work, the .exe will just crash.<\/p>\n 
Have fun adventuring! And paste your own adventures aswell \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n 
http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/minild-48\/?action=preview&uid=5751<\/a><\/p>\n 
 <\/p>","time":"January 12th, 2014 6:44 pm","title":"Redacted"}