I am building an engine that you can use to make visual novel type games like I used to do in goog'les slide's the plan is to make a scripting language that gets interpreted by a bundled exec
I procrastinated trying to get the gradients look look smoother with random noise, ended up removing it because it was drawing like 700,000 pixels with RNG and made the menu run at like 3 - 10 fps lol.
I also added a credits part of the main menu that reads out of ./data/credits.txt and displays the credits on screen, the slider from the last devlog has competition now!
I now have made text appear on screen like it’s being printed out, making that really threw up a fight because of newlines taking up two characters in an array and only listing as one (I think) that has lead to me counting every \n in the text and compansating for it.
I have made a settings menu for setting the text speed with the world’s worst slider
trying my best to get characters showing up on screen, it has been surprisingly difficult as I have to load in each character, expression and what the expression is titled, I then have to match the right one to the one that is requested in the text input in the slide file almost there though 
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got an options menu going!
for example clicking Option One sends you to slide 1 and clicking Option Two sends you to slide 2, both what is displayed on-screen and what slide it sends you to are configurable using the slide .txt file
now I just have to make it look nice :/
kinda funny not really needed but makes everything look so much nicer (see code snippet), almost got the selection UI going to!
finally got multiple text within a slide working, I’m now starting on a selector that lets the user choose how they want to continue the story UI coming in the next devlog
Much pain… almost got lots of text and multiple text going it works but resets to the start every time you try to go to the next slide then once it goes back you go through it again then lets you continue by one more slide :(
I have made the menu UI a bit nicer and added proper image cropping for backgrounds instead of just stretching them, I also now have the starts of a UI for the in game text box
Much news! I have added loading text, characters from a slide file and a title and background for the main menu, file decoding is surprisingly easy once you get the hang of it and learn that you must never read out-of-bounds!
just starting to work on my visual novel engine, so much file reading! I have a config file that set window width and height and provides a list of slide files, each slide will contain dialogue, backgrounds, foreground images and other stuff
