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5. Exits and endings

An exit is a cell that takes the avatar to another room. An ending is a cell that shows some text and ends the game. In this step you build the shed, lock the gate, and put the ending inside.

Add the shed

  1. In Room, choose New room. Name it shed.

  2. Open Colors and choose New palette. It starts as a copy of the garden colours and the shed uses it. Name it shed and pick warm browns:

    Colour Shed
    Background #2c1e1e
    Tiles #aa7850
    Sprites and items #ffd26e

  3. Draw a brick wall tile (with Wall on) and a shelf, and paint the shed: walls around the edge, a shelf near the top, and a gap in the middle of the bottom wall at 8,15.

Connect the rooms

  1. Go back to the garden in Room's room menu.

  2. Choose the Exit tool (X) and click the gate at 8,0. An exit appears, and Exits & endings shows it.

    Room with the Exit tool on and the gate cell outlined

  3. In Exits & endings, set Leads to to shed. Click the small map of the shed where the avatar arrives: 8,14, just inside the gap.

  4. Choose Both ways. The creator adds the exit back from the shed to the garden for you.
  5. Set Transition to Fade to black.

Exits & endings with the gate exit: one way or both ways, the garden map, Leads to shed at 8,14, Fade to black, and the lock script

Lock the gate

Choose Add a lock. The creator writes a script for the exit that checks for an item called key:

{
  - {item "1"} >= 1 ?
    {property locked false}
    The key opens the gate!
  - else ?
    {property locked true}
    The gate is locked...
}

{property locked true} keeps the avatar out. Change the two lines of text to fit your game. Add narration instead writes plain text that shows as the avatar goes through.

End the game

  1. Go to the shed. Choose the Ending tool (N) in Room and click 8,4, under the shelf.

  2. In Exits & endings, write the ending text:

    {rbw}You found the golden chili seed.{rbw} Thanks for playing!

The game ends after this text. On the next button press it starts again from the title, like in Bitsy.

Check it

Play the game. Without the key the gate says The gate is locked...; with it, the screen fades to the shed. Walk to the ending.

Want Use
An exit only one way One way, then Turn around to swap its ends
Send the avatar somewhere from dialog Go to a room in Dialog ({exit "1" 8 8})
End the game from dialog End the game in Dialog ({end})
A door that opens after a quest, not a key Edit the exit script to check a variable

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6. Variables: remember what happened.