Narrat 3.4.0 has been released

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Narrat is a game engine for making all sorts of interactive fiction games, visual novels and more with optional RPG mechanics and a very easy, intuitive and fast dialogue writing system.

Here are the new features in 3.4.0

Animations

There is a new animations 1 feature which lets you animate pretty much anything.

Narrat Editor

The first step to a future narrat editor is here, there is now an interactive narrat playground where you can play and edit a game at the same time directly in the browser.

This required a few changes to make it easier to integrate narrat within the tool, which would make it easier if anyone wants to make advanced plugins/integrations, or run narrat directly inside other websites.

This base proof of concept will be expanded on in the future to try to move towards having a proper desktop editor for creating/managing/editing/publishing narrat games

Breaking Changes

Not a breaking change, but as part of working on the narrat editor, narrat now can be inside custom containers in the page and doesn’t necessarily listen to inputs on the window object.

This doesn’t seem to break anything in my testing so far

Features

• New options to style portraits of individual characters 1
• New options to control when the dialog panel appears

Documentation

• New Dialog Panel 1 page
• New Animations 1 page
• Improved Inventory 1 docs
• Added Narrat Overview 1 page with explanations of elements in a narrat game