Underlogue uses the ncurses library to produce Undertale-style dialogue boxes in the bash terminal. Features (will) include animated character portraits, creation of dialogue scenes in a bespoke language with a movie script-like syntax, and the ability to let the player choose between two options at any point for different branches of dialogue.
Like most command line tools, simply pass a file path (i.e. dialogue "script") as an argument to the program to use it, e.g. ./Underlogue exampleScript.txt. As in Undertale, the Z key will continue to the next line of dialogue when the character has finished speaking, while X will skip through it. When options are displayed, the arrow keys are used to select different choices and Z to confirm the selected one.
Here's an example of a "script" located in the parser directory:
Alphys ("anxious 6"): "H-hey! I'm uh... not interrupting, am I?" (Yes/No)
Yes:
(
Alphys ("anxious 3"): "Oh...! Sorry!"
Alphys ("anxious 5"): "I guess I'll get out of your hair then..."
)
No:
(
Alphys ("surprised"): "Oh! Well... good!"
Alphys: "Anyway, I was just here to remind you to take a break."
Alphys: "You know, get up and stretch a bit."
Alphys ("anxious 3"): "I mean, you wouldn't want to end up with posture like mine, r-right?"
Alphys ("anxious 1"): "H-hahahaha...!!"
Alphys ("anxious 7"): "Yeah... I-I'm gonna go now."
)
Data concerning characters and their Unicode art "sprites" and corresponding names/sounds is stored in art/art.json. Currently, only Alphys, Undyne, Sans, and Asriel are available.
- Ncursesw (displaying elements)
- Rapidjson (accessing character-specific data stored in JSON)
- SDL (sound - to be added)
- Flex & Bison ("movie script" language)
- Fix various bugs with the ncurses display
- Add the rest of the characters to the JSON file
- Better layout of ncurses windows
- Handle terminal window resizing
- Allow spaces in expression names
- Prevent words being cut off on new lines
- Character voice sounds
- Reimplement entire project in Python in future?
Undertale © Toby Fox