Is there any way to allow a user to click a button to rewind the dialog? We're making a story for kids and some of them would like to flip backwards to reread a section of the story.
Thank you for your time.
Hi brg,
welcome to the forums!
Unfortunately there's no built-in way to "go back in time" in WSE. What you could do though, would be to split each block of text you want to be rewind-able into separate scenes. This way you could show a menu like:
"What do you want to do next?
1. I want to read this again.
2. Please tell me more about [...]"
Where answer 1 would just go to the same scene one more time and answer 2 would go to another scene.
Please have a look at the documentation for the choice menu here:
http://webstoryengine.org/language:elements:choice
As you can see, with the "scene" attribute, you can link a menu item to another scene, which means the story will jump to the specified scene. You can also use the same scene in which the menu is wiritten here.
Maybe this does the trick for you? Or did I misunderstand what you want to accomplish?
By the way: If you want to, you can share a link to your finished story here:
http://webstoryengine.org/showcase:visual-novels
Thanks C7N! Yeah your suggestion was the same idea I had. I probably won't do a flip back feature. Thanks for the link, I'll try to add the story there once its finish. Thanks for making a fantastic game engine
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HI C7N,
Our first game is debuting on the Wii U. Thank you so much for your help, I posted a link to the game on the Wikipedia page. Also, if you own a Wii U let me know
Nice, congrats for getting your game on the Wii U and good luck with the sales!
Unfortunately, I don't own a Wii U to play it.
Thanks, didn't plan on selling it originally but Nintendo process seems to take longer when the game is free.
C7N Wrote:Hi brg,
Unfortunately there's no built-in way to "go back in time" in WSE. What you could do though, would be to split each block of text you want to be rewind-able into separate scenes. This way you could show a menu like:
"What do you want to do next?
1. I want to read this again.
2. Please tell me more about [...]"
Where answer 1 would just go to the same scene one more time and answer 2 would go to another scene.
As you can see, with the "scene" attribute, you can link a menu item to another scene, which means the story will jump to the specified scene. You can also use the same scene in which the menu is wiritten here.
Maybe this does the trick for you? Or did I misunderstand what you want to accomplish?
By the way: If you want to, you can share a link to your finished story here:
http://webstoryengine.org/showcase:visual-novels
Hi C7N,
I've implemented your suggestion for the next story. In terms of code optimization is it possible I can use a variable name to navigate to a scene?
option label="Return to previous choice selection?" scene="{$previous_scene}"
As it stands now, I'll have to hardcode the name of the scene I would like to navigate too:
option label="Return to previous choice selection?" scene="myScene02"
Thank you for your time
Thanks C7N! I saved the new engine, if we have time we'll implement the new engine. If not, we'll implemented it in our third visual novel
. Thank you for the quick response and developing this wonderful game engine.