[Features IDEA ] Interactive Comics Features

alepinay

First i know we can achieve this kind of digital comic here with Monogatari using declared images (.png, .jpg, .gif) but this is not what I'm thinking of. Before Monogatari I was using WSE (Web Engine Story is no longer in active development).

There was something very cool in it to achieve digital comics using the textbox with its side image and its text. In fact this engine allows you to declare multiple textboxes with a CSS class to style and position each on the screen. The thing is that you can also show and hide those textboxes with commands in script, meaning that you could have one or three textboxes at a time. I was using that to make digital comics effects and it was so easy to use a textbox as a a strip to get multiple strips on game screen. Texts were not image as it was taken from normal textbox text and side image was used as strip picture. I didn't succeed in my experiment to have something similar in Monogatari. It will be a great addition to all great Monogatari features.

alepinay

Here's a quick mockup: Imgur
Maybe we need a new kind of texbox here.
Script tentative syntax: 'show stripbox <stripbox_id> [character_id][:[expression_id]] <dialog_text>'
'show stripbox sb1 with mike:happy Hello there!', 'show stripbox sb2 with jenny:angry I'm so mad!', 'show stripbox sb3 with sandy:smile Jennyfer is mad at you Michael!', 'hide stripbox sb1', 'hide stripbox sb3', 'hide stripbox sb4',
In declaration :

``monogatari.stripbox ({
'stb1': {
strip_container: 'main_container',
stip_class: 'style_sb1',
strips_scrolling_direction: 'vertical/horizontal',
out_of_screen_vertical: 'top/scroll',
out_of_screen_horizontal: 'left/right', // direction for LTR writing systems.

});`
We need in this case to have scrolling effect options (a click = a scroll) :

click scrolling vertically / top or scroll bar
click scrolling horizontally / left or right
first strips go out of screen to left or right when click scrolling horizontally
first strips go out of screen up or are scrollable when click scrolling vertically