Footnotes

This library contribution (Footnote 1), inspired by the footnotes systems used in games like Guilty Bastards and Stationfall, attempts to make footnotes easy! Unlike those other games, this system uses a “chronological” design- footnotes are only accessible after the prompting text has been seen, and footnotes are numbered by the order they are seen. Compared to the method used in Guilty Bastards, this system uses a footnote object (with its various aliased properties) to keep track of states instead of arrays and globals.

Get the files here. Now let’s take a look!

(Footnote 1 - a “Roodylib-ized” version of this extension is included with Roodylib)

The Set-Up

To use the footnotes library extension:

  1. #include “footnotes.g” in your grammar and “footnotes.h” after “hugolib.h”
  2. Before “footnotes.h” is included, define a constant called MAXFOOTNOTES that tells the game how many possible footnotes there are: constant MAXFOOTNOTES 20
  3. Put the call “FootnoteNotify” in the main routine after calls to routines that might possibly print text, like runevents and RunScripts.

  4. Add a “PrintFootnote” routine to your game, like the following: routine PrintFootnote(num) { select num case 1 : “Actually, this game was also submitted to the 2011 Hugo
    Comp. That’s TWO comps! Crazy, right?” case 2 : “[ Ok, so you converse in different ways with different
    characters. Get over it. ]” }

    (The cases are the actual footnotes your game will respond with.)

Putting Footnotes in Your Game

  • Calling Footnote( ) will automatically print "(Footnote )" instantly and add from PrintFootnote to your footnote array. 
    Footnote(<case number>)
  • If you want the game to announce the footnote with the after-the-turn notification system, just call:
    AddFootnote(<case number>)
  • If you want to print your own footnote announcement, print it and call:
    AddFootnote(<case number>, 1)

That’s it! You’re good to go!

Any questions?

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