The Dialog Manual

This revision of the Dialog Manual describes version 1b of the Dialog language, and version 1.1.1-dev 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

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