Dictionaries- Adding a story template

Dictionary type. Associative container contains values referenced by the unique keys. The reference always passes dictionaries.

Erasing elements while iterating over them is not supported in Godot.

Creating a dictionary:

To add a key to an existing dictionary, access it like an existing key, and assign to it:

  d[4] = “hello”  # Add integer four as a key and assign the string “hello” as its value.  d[“Godot”] = 3.01  # Add String “Godot” as a key and assign the value 3.01 to it.  

This is a perfect way of dealing with things like inventory management, not just inventory management all kinds of things we can do this is a good use case. Here we understand that how does it help us in our game.

For making a dictionary we have a function called My_ dictionary = { }.

Now, if we had an array, would have value one too.

If we have a dictionary, we have key values.

We can have an array of string also.

Example:

  extends Control  var player_words=[]  var current_story = {  “prompts”:[“a name”, “a noun”, “adverb”,”adjective”],      “story” : “It takes many %s deeds to build a %s reputation, and %s bad one to %s it.”      }      onready var PlayerText= $VBoxContainer/HBoxContainer/PlayerText  onready var DisplayText= $VBoxContainer/DisplayText    func _ready():  DisplayText.text=”Welcome all of u in the world of game and have a wondeful time!”  check_player_words_length()  PlayerText.grab_focus()    func _on_PlayerText_text_entered(new_text):  add_to_player_words()    func _on_TextureButton_pressed():  if is_story_done():  get_tree().reload_current_scene()  else:  add_to_player_words()     func add_to_player_words():  player_words.append(PlayerText.text)  DisplayText.text=””  PlayerText.clear()  check_player_words_length()    func is_story_done():  return player_words.size() == current_story.prompts.size()    func check_player_words_length():  if is_story_done():  end_game()  else:  prompt_player()    func tell_story():  DisplayText.text= current_story.story % player_words    func prompt_player():  DisplayText.text += “May I have” +current_story.prompts[player_words.size()]+”please?”    func end_game():  PlayerText.queue_free()  $VBoxContainer/HBoxContainer/Label.text=”Again!”  tell_story()  

Output:

Dictionaries- Adding a story template

After that complete the story.

Complete Code using dictionary:

  extends Control  var player_words=[]  var template = [  {  “prompts”:[“a name”, “a noun”, “adverb”,”adjective”],      “story” : “It takes many %s deeds to build a %s reputation, and %s bad one to %s it.”      },  {  “story”:”There once was %s called %s who searched far and wide for the mythical %s noun of %s.”,  “prompts”: [“a noun”,”a name”, “an adjective”, “another name”],   },  {  “story”:”Once upon a time a %s ate a %s felt very %s. It was a %s day for all good %s.”,  “prompts”: [“a name”,”a thing”, “a feeling”, “another feeling”, “some things”],   },  {  “story”:”There once was %s called %s that lived as %s as a %s.” ,  “prompts”: [“a thing”,”a name”, “a descrition”, “a thing”],   },  {  “story”:”There once was %s called %s who searched far and wide for the mythical %s noun of %s.”,  “prompts”: [“a noun”,”a name”, “an adjective”, “another name”],   },  {  “story”:”a Poem.nn1 I was a %s as can be, n then we could call me %s, n and i would talk to %s “,  “prompts”: [“a noun (a thing)”,”an adjective(a description word)”, “a person’s name”],   },  {  “story”:”Dear %s,I hope this letter finds we well. I have spent the past three weeks in %s researching the %s of donkies for my new book. I miss you hesitantly, and whenever i see a %s I think of u. “,  “prompts”: [“a person’s name”,”the name of a place”, “the plural of a noun”, “another name”]   },  {  “story”:”Once upon a time, a %s hero called %s was sent to %s, tio defeat a %s %s. He did so, return to defeat %s”,  “prompts”: [“an adjective”,”a person’s name”, “a place”, “an adjective”,”a noun”,”another place”],  },  {  “story”:”The ultimate pizza recipe. nn Moix one packet of %s with three spoonfuls of flour. Knead it as it %s then put the %s and %s on it, after that open the oven and %s it.”,  “prompts”: [“a noun”,”an adjective”, “another noun”, “yet another noun”, “adjective”]   }  ] # Dictionaries stories  var current_story    onready var PlayerText= $VBoxContainer/HBoxContainer/PlayerText  onready var DisplayText= $VBoxContainer/DisplayText    func _ready():  randomize()  current_story=template[randi()% template.size()]  set_current_story()  DisplayText.text=”Welcome all of u in the world of game and have a wondeful time!”  check_player_words_length()  PlayerText.grab_focus()    func set_current_story():  randomize()  current_story=template[randi()% template.size()]    func _on_PlayerText_text_entered(new_text):  add_to_player_words()    func _on_TextureButton_pressed():  if is_story_done():  get_tree().reload_current_scene()  else:  add_to_player_words()     func add_to_player_words():  player_words.append(PlayerText.text)  DisplayText.text=””  PlayerText.clear()  check_player_words_length()    func is_story_done():  return player_words.size() == current_story.prompts.size()    func check_player_words_length():  if is_story_done():  end_game()  else:  prompt_player()    func tell_story():  DisplayText.text= current_story.story % player_words    func prompt_player():  DisplayText.text += “May I have” +current_story.prompts[player_words.size()]+”please?”    func end_game():  PlayerText.queue_free()  $VBoxContainer/HBoxContainer/Label.text=”Again!”  tell_story()  

In output section we have many stories will come continuously. We have to just add our words.

Output:

Dictionaries- Adding a story template

And we can make many stories as above.

In our next tutorial, we learn about StoryObjects.

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