Weekly Update #11

Chipping away this week when I have time away from work (which I don’t).

Changelog:

Tested various actions in the forest after recent refactoring.
Added a ‘counter’ helper. It uses the ECS setData/getData methods to keep track of how many times a particular event has happened. This will let me customize output and activities to be more dynamic. e.g. every third time you enter Dim Clearing, a butterfly flutters by. Or the first time you encounter a character, they’re surprised to see you.
Added Handlebars helpers to tie into yesterday’s ECS counter feature. Now I can add conditional templating in room descriptions and such based on how many times something has happened.
Added generic tracker of how many times a location has been visted.
Added generic tracker of how many times an object has been seen.
Added variable description for Ranger Bob the first time the player meets him.
Added variable description for Other East Trail the second time it’s visited.
Laid groundwork for making experimental context menus dynamic based on target. Disabled context menu on everything except name tags.
Added nametags with context dropdowns to Dim Clearing.
Nametag helper now generates nametags instead of tags.
Fixed clickability and styling of context items.
Fixed MOVE verb not outputting responses when invalid directions are given. More generally, the NLP once again allows text return values from verbs, which it appends to the response output.
Fixed speech tags (special purpose name tags for conversation trees) generating incorrectly.
Fixed EAT verb.
Fixed LOOK IN verb.

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