Hi all,
Does anyone know of a way to include hover-over text over words in ChoiceScript?
Someone has asked for a glossary of the nautical terms in my game, and I thought it might be nice to just press on the word to get a quick definition to appear, like you can on Kindle, rather than having to go out to a separate glossary page via the stats screen.
There isn’t, and it would be pretty tricky to implement on mobile platforms since you would need to press your finger over the button to read the tooltip on a narrow screen.
The closest I can think of would be to make hyperlinks which link to information pages like Wikipedia, or your own website, but it wouldn’t work for offline play.
Otherwise, I think a glossary page works fine.
Reference: The Saga of Oedipus Rex
Actually that example looks really cool. Thanks. It’s a shame readers might have to disrupt their playing to check what words mean, but hopefully it won’t happen too often.
You could note in a foreword that there’s a glossary on the stats page, so people know right away and can check before playing if they like
Oh that’s a good idea. Thanks. I think if I saw something like that I would probably screenshot it so i could see it alongside the game if I wanted to.
