TheBrockEllis / ZText

Text based adventure game set in the zombie apcoalpyse
thebrockellis.github.io/ZText
Apache License 2.0
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Add <em> to add EMPHASIS #3

Open TheBrockEllis opened 10 years ago

TheBrockEllis commented 10 years ago

Whenever we display a block of text to describe where the survivor is it, we need to place the items they can interact with in tags. That will make those items have some subtle emphasis in the output box that give the user a hint that they can be used.

allknowingfrog commented 10 years ago

Couldn't we just capitalize the names in the item descriptions?

TheBrockEllis commented 10 years ago

For example, when the player uses the look() function, there can be up to 7-8 lines of text. Sometimes the items the user can interact with get lost in that huge block of text. Also, sometimes the description of the item makes it confusing on what to type. For example, "wooden baseball bat". A user may think they need to type that whole string out, or maybe just the word "bat". If we emphasized "baseball bat" it would give the user a clear clue that those are the words they need to use to interact with it.

Adding some emphasis with the tags would help them stand out.

xdega commented 6 years ago

I went ahead and added <em>, as it keeps things subtle. Capitalization could be quite overbearing.