I drifted over to another side quest, one tha...

July 14, 2008 by Adam in NWN2

I drifted over to another side quest, one that I'm doing out of love. Unfortunately I keep managing to destroy the module and lose progress periodically, so I find myself redoing things. I suppose the good news is that I've gotten fairly good at it at this point, so this third version is more polished than the older ones.

The Fairy Tale module is essentially a text adventure. It'll likely be very short, entirely optional, and more of an homage to the genre. I have fond memories of a kid typing "go north" and "get lamp". I've written a few simple text parses over the years. I'm trying to keep this one extremely simple and not take weeks to get working right.

Yesterday I fiddled with the GUI so it looks more book-like. I also had all sorts of problems parsing out text strings, though hopefully that's fixed now.

It's been fun working on this system, which reminds me of the good ol' days when graphics meant ASCII characters on the screen and sound effects were various beeps coming from your computer speaker.