FINALLY DIALOGUE WORKS

originally written 19/6/26

i have genuinely spent all day trying to get this to work. thank you friendly cosmonaut dialogue system, youre not the problem its me. i deleted one line of code by accident and spent hours trying to fix it. but now everything works how i want!

A screenshot of the testing grounds for this game. Against a green background, the Protagonist stands next to Test Boy, a poorly drawn smiley face made of white pixels. A dialogue box below the pair shows Test Boy's name and portrait, and his dialogue: 'I'm Text Boy (displayed in wavy red text)!!!! I love you unconditionally'

guys im really attached to test boy

Anyway! It's not easy to tell from the image, but now the player character stops when dialogue starts, and their sprites stop as well, so it's like they're standing still listening to whoever's talking to them. the only thing i want to change is having the character's name more centered in the box but aside from that this is literally exactly what i wanted!!

have also just learned how to add custom fonts! i think in the future i might try making my own.. for now im just using the same font im using here, from the Legend of Tenna ,.:]

A screenshot of the same testing grounds, but with the font from the Legend of Tenna

fixed and better thanks to my brother who knows how to use gamemaker

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