Cyberlab

Requirements: python 3, pygame.

$python main.py

Controls:

Menu:

• Up/Down keys to select option
• Enter to choose option

Game:

• Arrow keys for movement. Numeric pad works too.
• Look at the door and press E or Enter to open/close it
• E or G to pickup items, Q to drop
• Return to show next text message
• Space to ignore all the text messages in the current queue
• F11 toggles fullscreen

You can change default key mapping in settings.py

Editing tools:

Tiled

$python util/tiled2json.py Imports map from Tiled

Usage:

• Load the tileset using assets/spritesheet.png
• Make a new map
• Save the map as .json
• Run the script to convert in the internal map format

How to add story triggers

• Add a new objects layer
• Selects a rectangular area
• Add a custom property called text
• The value of that property would be the displayed text

Plain old ascii art

$python util/txt2json.py Converts the map in readable txt format to json format

Compiling into executable

$python -m pip install cx_Freeze --upgrade to install cx_Freeze module

$python setup.py build

It will create build folder with binaries.

Development:

In-game text

To put text or an image on player's screen, simply make a message using Message(text).

More about text triggers:

• Put two line breaks to create separate messages
• Put single line breaks to format messages
• Use # after a newline to create a comment
• Recommended maximum line length for picture chat mode is 50 characters

Styling

Use $style icon to switch to icon style.

Use $style narrator to switch to narrator style.

Use $style big for the fullscreen text window style.

See screenshots directory for more info.

Changing speaker

Use $speaker name to switch to speaker with the given name. Make sure to put a png file named name.png to assets/messages/avatars with the speaker's picture.