Visual novel

Hi to everyone!!

Since i didn't find anything searching through the forum, I'll try to ask here:

I have to implement a visual novel engine for a game I'm creating. I would like to retrieve information (such as strings for dialogues and other stuff) from an external file. Is there any way to do it?

I would really appreciate your answer! Thank you!

There are quite a few different objects which allow for the storage of data (e.g. Data Store 2, MagicDeque, Dynamic Array, GlobalStoreX, Array, Associative Array, Named Variable Object, List, Combo box, INI, INI++, XML Parser, EasyXML, SimpleStore and StoreX). Which is best kind of depends on how you will be accessing it.

If I were making a Visual Novel I'd definitely consider using one of the Lua objects for scripting capability, but it kind of depends on the Novel and its level of interactivity and definitely adds to the complexity.

The easiest method might be to use the List, Combo Box or GetLine object with the String Parser object.