Alpha 0.22 Patch Notes - Get Your Stories Out Of My Game

This updates focuses on two things in particular. The whole tooltip system has been reworked, instead of floating with the cursor they now just get displayed on the right of the screen. It has also been split into two distinct purposes. "Tooltips" are now for explaining something and how to thing about it. "Cues" is a new field added that gives suggestions and ideas for how to think about the prompt.

Also a new option has been added to the Main Menu, allowing you to go into a new Prompt Generator menu where you can create Story Object cards without going through an actual story. It's just a way to roll up traits on a Hero, Ally, Setting etc. Here's an example of how it works:

Looking forward, I'm going to be taking part in Wizard Jam 7, a game jam with the Idle Thumbs podcast network community. My plan is to basically make a new version of this game that creates prompts for writing your own Important If True podcast episode. This means writing a new JSON file of prompts, passages etc. but I'll also be expanding the core game to be more adaptable to different structures rather than hardcoding it be stuck to the Hero, Quest etc. archetype.

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Feature changes:

• Tooltips changed
  • Split tooltips into two fields, tooltip and cues. Tooltips explain the context and cues are for suggestions and prompts.
  • Tooltips are now displayed in a fixed spot on the side of the screen instead of floating with the cursor.
• Added menu for generating story objects independent of any story.
• Added ability to copy Story Object cards with Ctrl + C
• Added branching paths based on the result of the Quest Resolution
• Changed chance calculation of options to improve randomness

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed some text being cut off by too small UI objects
• Removed Flags and Coin Modifiers from being written any more
• Fixed bad passage path that could loop forever
• Rewrote some tooltips for clarity
• Various fixes in HTML writing
  • Added kept newlines when writing <br> tags
  • Fixed Choice passages being recorded incorrectly
  • Removed writing some empty HTML tags
  • Fixed Training coin flips not being recorded
  • Closed header tag that was left open
  • Edited titles to display better

Next Build:

• Genericising code to remove hardcoded references to specifically how Fantasy.json is written
  • Allow for arbitrary Story Object names rather than set to Hero etc.
• Allow Obstacles to be reused and used by the Antagonist
• Add setting to optionally hide cues

The Future:

• Overhauling the UI
• In game story settings editor
• More passage types, story options and optional shorter stories
• Improved saving system that allows manual saving, multiple saves and exporting a story midway through