The Dialog Manual

This is Revision 31+ of the Dialog Manual. It describes version 0m of the Dialog language, and version 0.46 of its standard library. Dialog is currently in its beta stage, which means that the language may still undergo significant changes.

Preface

Part I: The Programming Language

Chapter 1: Flow of execution

Chapter 2: Manipulating data

Chapter 3: Choice points

Chapter 4: More control structures

Chapter 5: Input and output

Chapter 6: Dynamic predicates

Chapter 7: Syntactic sugar

Chapter 8: More built-in predicates

Chapter 9: Beyond the program

Appendix: Quick reference

Part II: The Standard Library

Chapter 1: Getting started

Chapter 2: Objects and state

Chapter 3: Traits

Chapter 4: Items

Chapter 5: Moving around

Chapter 6: Actions

Chapter 7: The standard actions

Chapter 8: Ticks, scenes, and progress

Chapter 9: Non-player characters

Chapter 10: Understanding player input

Chapter 11: Miscellaneous features

Appendix: Predicate index

TODO:

  • top level toc list under each main page link

  • centering the top mast

  • columns for Part I vs. Part II