different direction: either use a minus in front of every "cycle" you see in the sin/cos formulas OR instead of adding dt to the cycle, substract dt from it.

It would work like this.

there you go:

https://copy.com/peH6Upm8jirpoI31

like this?

https://copy.com/jwY3jWCknJDyNaoF

Here is a very simple example of how a script file could look (that the engine is supposed to understand / parse):

character | Carl | c | 100 | 20 | 20 | Arial
character | Steve | s | 20 | 60 | 100 | Arial
character | System | none | 100 | 100 | 100 | DejaVu Sans

anchor | start
music | on | main_music
background | main_screen
  text | none | Where do you want to go?/nPlease make a choice :).
# comments and empty lines should be ignored
  choice | scene1 | 1 | I want to go to scene 1. | 400 | 100
  choice | scene2 | 1 | I want to go to scene 2. | 400 | 150
    require | on | scene1 | 1
      goto | scene1
    require | off
    goto | scene2

anchor | scene1
image | carl_happy | 1 | middle | bottom
music | off
  text | c | You did it!
image | carl_suspicious | 1
  text | c | But why am I alone here/n and the background didn't even change. 
  text | c | Hmm, no music playing either... I'll be better getting out of here.
image | clear | 1
goto | start

anchor | scene2
background | scene2
image | carl_happy | 1 | left | bottom
image | steve_happy | 2 | right | bottom
  text | s | Awesome!
  move | 2 | middle | bottom | 1
  text | c | You did it! Your decision-making is unparalleled.
  sfx | yeah
  choice | success| 1 | Go back to the main menu. | 400 | 100
image | clear | 1
image | clear | 2
goto | start[/code:30ieovtv]

Hi, thanks for your input. Most of the things you mentioned are already in my list under a different "label". Text appearing word by word / instantly / text speed would be contained in the options for text display.

Conversation record would be history.

Point and click elements is contained in keep track of decisions (which kind of includes being able to make decisions usually by clicking buttons).

Navigation would be partly skip function, but I guess there can be additional other navigation tools, too, true.

Different character sprites for different emotions is contained in simply displaying images.

Language support should be doable by adding a language selection layout and loading the appropriate script file (each language will have one, then). It would go to advanced tools, which I think I will not manage to put in below 100 events, but let's see.

For now I thought about the kind of functions I need to do my basic tasks:

functions:

character | name | characterid | textcolorR | ~G | ~B | font

# defines a character

choice | decision | add | label | positionx | positiony

# spawn a button that lets you make a choice, if label omitted, it is nonclickable

require | on/off | decision | value

# another tool for flow control

# when "on" the following lines will be ignored, if the value for decision is not equal or greater than value

# when "off" it will turn off the last requirement, that has been imposed

text | characterid | text

# display dialog, maybe we should be able to define default positions like left, right, middle

# /n for newline

# text will display and then wait for user click until it continues

image | imagename | imageid | positionx | positiony | scale

# load a character image

# we will add a transparent image with name clear to visually clear the screen

move | imageid | positionx | positiony | movetime

# will move the image over move time to position x and y

background | imagename

# load a background image

sfx | filename

# will play voice or sfx once

music | on/off | filename

# will loop a piece of music or stop it

anchor | id

# let's you create an anchor (can be the start of a scene, etc.)

goto | id

# let's you jump to an anchor

result v1.0: https://copy.com/KCTlxMno6FGbhQto

http://strategy-investor.de/mgz10/vnengine/

code is not very clear and organized due to trying to stay within the 100 events limitation

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I will attempt to create a visual novel engine in less than 100 events as a proof of concept. I am not sure if I will succeed though, but I will try <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">. I will add annotations and thoughts on the way. Please bear with me.

For now, I will try to collect needed features the engine is supposed to be able to do.

Basic features (have to be in for sure!)

• main menu with (new, load); this can possibly be worked as a normal game screen
• import a script file that will tell the game what to do and that can be edited outside of Construct 2 (similar to a RenPy Script maybe, should be kind of human-readable)
• load images
• move images
• display dialog (characters should be able to have differently colored text)
• display choices for user input
• keep track of decisions and follow the correct story branch based on that
• audio (music and speech)
• simple save and load system
• an UI

advanced features (don't have to be inside, but would be nice to have; should be done after all necessary stuff is in the game):

• transitions
• history
• skip function & other navigation (thanks Ofris)
• options for text display / hud
• multi language support (thanks Ofris)

Are there more features, that are needed and I didn't think of?

Yeah thought so, but hoped you might have an idea. Will report it to Opera when it persists within the next update of Opera Dev. Thanks.

Problem Description

This time with other browsers (recent versions which I installed and after the test uninstalled again) tested

I tried the audio effects example of scirra as preview in Opera Developer 29. Clicking on a sfx will start it once and once it's over, no other sounds will be heard again, ever. If I spam click after the first initial click, it will start the sound multiple times, but all the sounds playing will cut off, once the initial sound has finished playing.

Attach a Capx

it is in the scirra examples folder

Description of Capx

In part it is supposed to start sounds by clicking on buttons.

Steps to Reproduce Bug

• browser: Opera Developer 29.0
• keep clicking on sfx buttons

Observed Result

sounds will cut off after initial first sound effect has finished playing

Expected Result

sounds continue to work

Affected Browsers

• Chrome: no
• FireFox: no
• Internet Explorer: no
• Opera developer 29.0: yes

Operating System and Service Pack

Win 7 Home 64bit, fully updated

Construct 2 Version ID

r198

Problem Description

I tried the audio effects example of scirra as preview in Opera Developer 29. Clicking on a sfx will start it once and once it's over, no other sounds will be heard again, ever. If I spam click after the first initial click, it will start the sound multiple times, but all the sounds playing will cut off, once the initial sound has finished playing.

Attach a Capx

it is in the scirra examples folder

Description of Capx

In part it is supposed to start sounds by clicking on buttons.

Steps to Reproduce Bug

• browser: one of the recent Operas I guess
• keep clicking on sfx buttons

Observed Result

sounds will cut off after initial first sound effect has finished playing

Expected Result

sounds continue to work

Affected Browsers

• Chrome: (don't know)
• FireFox: (don't know)
• Internet Explorer: (don't know)

Operating System and Service Pack

Win 7 Home 64bit

Construct 2 Version ID

r198

I tried:

Write file: file "test.txt", contents "abc"

and exported the project.

I would expect the file "test.txt" to appear in the exported program's directory, but it doesn't. What's wrong? A working example would also do the job.

Hello guys,

so I've made a construct application that watches for something to change, and if it changes, I want to be able to notify people (it's for an online game). We use an IRC channel, but I guess posting my data to IRC ist to complicated, so my other thought is, that I could go and try to post that data to a text file on a server, that then an IRC bot surely could watch and, if it changes, notify users in the IRC channel.

I use that program in form of a node webkit.

How can I do that?