Look Up, Down, N/S/E/W

[thaskef]

Usually I look in certain directions when playing text adventures. My Quest 5 games had descriptions for each direction someone might look to find something of interest.

Is there a way to implement that in QuestJS?

[ThePix]

Short answer: yes

It is worth adding to the library. Give me a few days and I will see what I can do. The attributes on the room objects will (almost certainly) be "look_east", "look_up", etc.

[ThePix]

I have added up update to github. You will need to update lang/lang-en.js and lib/_commands.js.

Docs are here: https://github.com/ThePix/QuestJS/wiki/Attributes-for-rooms#look-directions

I will leave this open a couple of days in case you hit any issues.

[thaskef]

Ok great it's working now as long as I create it as a function with a msg(). (It doesn't work with just a string unless if it's an unlocked exit as you mention.)

The only things to tidy up now are:

• if you look in a direction of a locked exit and there's no look-direction description, it throws an error.
• if you look in a direction where there isn't an exit and there's no look-direction description, it should probably say something like "You don't see anything of interest." (rather than "You can't go [direction].")

[ThePix]

Thanks, I have updated lib/_commands.js

[thaskef]

I was able to modify lang/lang-en.js as follows: no_look_that_way:"{nv:char:can't:true} see anything of interest {show:dir}.",

This resolved the second issue above.