Visual Text Engine

Visual Text Engine (working title) is meant to be a graphical user interface for text-engine, a tool for creating text adventure games that run in the browser.

Try it out! (Live demo)

Planned features include (this is my to-do list):

General

• Import JSON game disks
• Export JSON game disks
• Export game to webpage
• Export game to zip (for easy upload to itch.io)
• Manage starting room ID
• Manage starting inventory
• Add/remove rooms

Room Editor

• Set/change room ID, name, description, exits and artwork
• Drag and resize room cards
• Add/remove room exits
• Visualize connections between rooms*
• Selected card is highlighted; connections coming from and going to it are color-coded
• Add/remove/edit room items

*Needs improvement

Item Editor

• Set/change name, description, isTakeable property
• Add/remove custom item properties
• Set item use function (perhaps save to/load from .js files)

Someday/maybe

• Auto-size and -position rooms cards on load (look into box packing)
• Drag-and-drop connections between rooms
• Drag-and-drop items (move items to other rooms)
• Choose exit destination from drop-down list (not sure how I feel about this...)
• ASCII art editor
• CSS style editor