dressupgeekout / lunapurpura

Reimplementation of Purple Moon's games from the 1990s (WIP) - NOTE: ScummVM port in progress
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Locker Text File Background Indicators #43

Open AlanisSmithee opened 4 years ago

AlanisSmithee commented 4 years ago

File names for locker texts in the Rockett games always include a letter or group of letters that determine which "book" (i.e. background, hence the thread title) they appear in. This is always the second group of characters in the file name. In Tricky, there's a handful of these, but by Dance, most of them were dropped in favor of the Whistling Pines journals. (Whether this was because development was rushed or to make things more streamlined, I can't say.)

Not all locker items with text in them are included as text files. Some non-journal/diary items (the Camp Pine-Away brochures, Viva's astrology book, etc.) appear to just be stored as graphic files.

Also of note: There is one locker text file in Tricky that doesn't follow the normal naming format: a journal entry from Nicole vowing revenge against Rockett and everyone who humiliated her in the gym scene; labeled "~1.txt".

Here are the ones I've encountered, for easy reference.

The text for Rockett's backpack journal are kept in a separate folder (RESOURCE/shared2 in Tricky, RESOURCE/idbackpk in Invitation and Dance) and use a different file name format in Tricky. ("bpjournal[scene#][emotion abbreviation]" or "pbjournal[scene#[emotionabbrev.]"). In Invitation and Dance, they follow the same naming scheme as other locker texts.

Presumably, New School uses a similar scheme to Tricky for its graphic files, but I haven't been able to dig into those yet.