Tynk Dialog Tool

Overview

This is an early development version of a tool that can be used to create, edit, and eventually preview dialog boxes for the upcoming game Tynk! and the Final Phonorecord.

Roadmap

Completed

• Proof of Concept
  • Open dialog files saved in the JSON based file format
  • Edit the content and settings of the dialog files interactively
  • Serialize the edited content back into the JSON format for use in the game engine
• Basic Functionality
  • Fully featured command line interface
• Basic Graphical User Interface
  • Implement UI with Swing
  • Provide familiar editing idioms (File Edit etc.)
• Markup
  • Text colors
  • Behaviors (text effects)
  • Print delay
  • Rich text editing inside the dialog tool interface

To-Do

• Game File Integration
  • Automatically pull data from a configured game data path in the filesystem
  • Check user input against the character, blip, textbox style info found in the game files
  • Support opening / editing / saving content directly to and from the game files
• Advanced Functionality
  • Preview sound blips
  • Drag and drop capability for rearranging dialog
  • Preview dialog in styled textbox without opening GameMaker

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