Godot 3 version CANCELED.
Sooty Engine aims to be an easy to read and write branching story engine.
While still in ealy dev, you can, right now, have a fully working visual novel, with menus, achievements, and everything. All you need is to add your images and sounds to the appropriate folders, write a script in markdown, and compile. Boom.
Current features:
- Scripting language
- Dialogue system, with branching and rollback
- Achievements, quests, & rewards
- Audio with automatic fading
- Menus for save, load, settings, & credits
- Persistent data + settings
- Resource management
- Date & time
- Hot Reload (not super stable)
Coming features:
- Inventory & equipment
- Story graph & meta data
- Localization
- Maps
- 3D Stuff
- Audio effects
- Tons!
Sooty allows a lot of laziness, so you can focus on desiging instead of organizing.
A sound file at:
res://audio/sfx/My Jingle 3 (credit=soundzzz.gov).mp3
can be got with:
Resources.sound("my_jingle") or
Resources.sound("jingle") or
Resources.sound("My Jingle 3")
And if you later moved My Jingle 3 to res://audio/jingles/My Jingle 3... everything would still work.
SootyScript is based on Markdown. Aiming to be as human readable/writable as possible.
Markdown styles *italic*, **bold**, and ***bold italic*** are converted to bbcode: [i]italic[/i], [b]bold[/b], and [b][i]bold italic[/b][/i].
# _init_
chose_to_restart = false
# Chapter Name
Here is a line of text.
John: Here is a spoken line.
->
# Chapter 2
Here is the 2nd chapter.
if chose_to_restart:
This isn't you first time to this chapter.
Where do you want to go next?
- Restart this one `if not chose_to_restart`
`chose_to_restart = true`
-> The Next Chapter
- Chapter 3 -> Chapter 3
- The End -> The End
# Chapter 3
Chapter 3 has a random animal speaking!
?
- Chicken: Bawk, bawk.
- Cow: Moo.
- Dog: Meow.
->
# Chapter 4 - Moving Objects
Let's play some music.
.music "My Song" volume=0.5 fade=in
Let's show an image.
@icon
Let's move it to the right.
@icon; move right
->
# The End
The end of the story.
.show_menu
Because of the early build state, there is no clean install other than this test project.
Simply download and modify it if you like.
Soon things will stabilize.
