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Synthnostate DEMO [ALPHA]

3 years ago

v0.7.4 released - Dialogue, Class System, Scene Traversal

The important parts are all in. Now I need another month to follow up on turnbased combat, AI, the GUI system, equipment UI, and debugging.


Changelog

- New UIs:

- Dialogue (click under an NPC to talk)

- Quest Journal (barebones) (J)

- Character Creation & Class System prototype (shift-C)

- Title Screen (WIP, only accessible via Main Menu until fixed)

- Scene traversal via doors/stairs

- Added adjacent scenes for testing

- Controls changed:

- LMB: talk to NPC

- RMB: attack NPC (temporary)

- CTRL+SHIFT+___ in-game editing hotkeys (to avoid conflicts)

- CTRL+SHIFT+RMB on NPC to edit appearance

- CTRL+SHIFT+RMB on equipment slot to insert new item

- CTRL+SHIFT+RMB on dialogue text to edit

- Tweaks:

- Text editing: click to set cursor position

- JS console command history (arrows / ^P / ^N)

- Quickstart command line option (EX: "-q svo6")

- Hide health bars in the character screen 3D viewport

- Finalized NPC/item data format

- Converted all old data (excluded from demo builds)

- Save/load dialogue data

- NestedText format, basically YAML-lite

- structure is WIP

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