GameGenerator is a Qt5 based visual editor for creating narrative adventure games, most commonly published as HTML games. It provides a flow-chart like interface, where single pages are linked to build the game's story line(s). The pages display graphical content and offer links to navigate through the game.

You can find the latest version in the /bin directory on its github project.

Games are composed of single pages, which are connected through links. A page ususally displays some content (e.g. an image) and provides means to navigate to following pages. This can be decisions links at the bottom of the page, clickable areas in the displayed content, or a prominent action button.

When following a link, game variables might be modified. By this, previous decisions taken by the player can affect the course of the game.

Pages are the main building blocks of a game. They deliver the game's story and interaction to the player.

There are different types of pages:

• Start Page There must be exactly 1 start page per project. This is where the game starts
• End Page There can be any number of end pages. This is where the game ends
• Action Page Displays content and provides a single action to navigate to the next page
• Decision Page Displays content and provides any number of decision links to navigate to other pages
• Condition Page Evaluates a condition based on game variables and automatically forwards to another page, based on the outcome

Action and Decision pages can have clickable areas on the content to provide additional navigation possiblities.

Links are the navigation edges between the pages. They usually provide some text, and can modify variables to keep track of decisions made by the player. These can then be evaluated by Condition Pages, to provide alternative game workflows.

In the GameGenerator editor, pages are grouped into scenes. This facilitates the management of more or less independet parts of the game. There can be any number of scenes (you can create a game with only 1 scene). There is no real impact on the final game by scenes.
It is possible to link pages across scenes.

GameGenerator has a media manager that allows the creator to manage all the assets used by a GamGenerator project. Like pages, media assets are grouped into the defined scenes.

The media manager copies all files into a central repository, so that a GameGenerator project is a self-contained folder, suitable for redistributing, or versioning systems like git.

Generators will create a playable game from a GG Project. Currently, there is only an HTML generator, that creates a series of HTML pages playable in a web browser.

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• F2 Edit name (select whole text)
• F3 Open caption editor
• F4 Open content editor
• F5 Open mapping editor

• Double click on media Assign and close media manager

• Ctrl+Enter Accept and close