Textventbox
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| Series: | SP |
| Genre: | Adventure |
| Modes: | Single Player |
| Platforms: | ME-OS |
| Release Date: | January 18th, 2022 |
Textventbox is a "choose your own adventure" text game engine made by Octopus58. It was released as part of the 0.0.49 update to ME-OS, and allows users to play text stories stored on the OS as well as create and share their own text games.
Gameplay
This game engine has a multiple commands that allow the story to be played. Usually, the basic format is having text, images, and music followed by 1-4 prompts. The player can then click buttons 1-4 to continue. Pressing the space bar also advances text prompts and other events quicker.
If a user wants to write their own game, all they have to do is make a folder with the resources they'd like to use such as images and music. However the most important file in the folder must be the game.txt folder, which has all the instructions written in a simple top to bottom style. An example game is provided (File:TextventboxShortExample.zip) that showcases basic commands being used as well as the folder structure.
Base Game Stories
Textventbox comes with the following stories included with the OS:
| Story | Author | Description |
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| The Hills | Octopus58 | This story, the player plays as themselves, except they are somehow awoken in Sunset Hill in SP. They must navigate their surroundings and figure out what to do about their stay. |
Commands
The following symbols can be used to create a game in Textventbox:
| Command | Description | Example |
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| : | Used to denote a heading |
:testheading
- Will set a heading called testheading
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| DELAY | Specifies a delay in seconds |
DELAY 0.5
- Will delay execution until the next line for half a second
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| EXIT | Exits the game and goes to Textventbox menu |
EXIT
- Leaves to Textventbox main menu
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| GOTO | Jump to a different heading. Headings are made by writing :exampleheading as a line anywhere in the text file |
GOTO(testheading)
- Will go to the line marked as :testheading
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| IMGEXT | Loads an external image. Must be in the folder included with the game.txt file |
IMGEXT: destination.png
- Will load an image from your game folder called destination.png
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| IMGLOC | Loads a local image from ME-OS |
IMGLOC: E/GameFiles/Textventbox/Preloaded/TheHillsFiles/menuimg
- Will load a local image from E/GameFiles/Textventbox/Preloaded/TheHillsFiles/ called menuimg
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| MLOADEXT | Loads an external music file. The file has to be in the same folder as game.txt. Doesn't play immediately! |
MLOADEXT: song.mp3
- Will load song.mp3 from your game folder
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| MLOADLOC | Loads a local music file from ME-OS |
MLOADLOC: E/Music/Dreamy/Emmy
- Will load a local song from from E/Music/Dreamy/ called Emmy
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| MLOOP | Sets the music to loop. Off by default |
MLOOP: true
- Will set the music to loop
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| MPITCH | Sets the pitch of the music. 1 by default |
MPITCH: 0.5
- Will set the current audio pitch to 0.5
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| MPLAY | Plays the currently loaded song (if any) |
MPLAY
- Will play the currently loaded song, if any
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| MVOL | Set's the volume of the music player. 1 is maximum |
MVOL: 0.5
- Sets the music player volume to 50%
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| OPT | Allows you to set up to four options to choose from (you can have less than 4). Most important command in the game! |
OPT:start game(GOTO begin)|Mute Game(MVOL 0)|Leave(EXIT)
- This will give the player 3 options. Start the game and go to the begin heading, mute, or leave and go to menu
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| TEXT | Sets the text prompt for the user to read |
TEXT: This text will show up in big letters at the bottom of the screen.
- The black bar at the bottom of the screen will now read: This text will show up in big letters at the bottom of the screen.
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Development
This game engine has started to get work shortly before ME-OS version 0.0.49 released. It was a consideration for the future, but a suggestion from a beta tester to make it sooner triggered it's early implementation.
Music
Textventbox does not have any default music. However the games you open might have multiple tracks in them.
External Links
Trivia
- Animated sequences can be made by loading in images followed by a delay for how long to wait before showing the next image.
- The first included Textventbox game was "The Hills".