#dendry

[manonamora-if]

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[cyberpunklesbian]

I know how to do in-text links and pop-ups in dendry now :)

The syntax is currently complicated and a bit unnatural (it's just embedded html/js), but I do want to add it as a base language feature. For Archivist I'm thinking of implementing a hypertext wiki-like thing within the game (possibly), which is the only place where this might be helpful. Anyway the code is at https://github.com/aucchen/dendry_test.

Also I'm creating a bunch of html/css templates for dendry at https://github.com/aucchen/dendry-templates.

[cyberpunklesbian]

I’ve created an automated testing script for the dendry system, for the development of Pageant. It can run through the game automatically, either randomly selecting choices or picking choices based on a script, and writes a transcript of the displayed web output as well as the internal stats. Unfortunately it requires the firefox selenium driver as a dependency.

If I ever make another game in dendry (lol), this will come in handy.

[cyberpunklesbian]

Dendry analytics idea: at the end of the game, have a choice to automatically post some subset of the ending stats on a google sheet using the javascript API. this would probably have to be a bespoke per-game system, as maybe the stats/variables we care about is different for each game. Or maybe we could just dump the state json somewhere?

Another dendry idea: command to display character sprites on the page, as in a visual novel (or... birdland). Have different slots where sprites can be displayed - top right, top left, etc. What about mobile? then, maybe the sprites can be placed at the top of the page?