Say Dialog Persisting

Pulp
#1

I'm trying to send the player back to a "mainMenu" room after death. Upon entering the "dead" state, I present a dialog with the say command, and then navigate the user to the "mainMenu" after they dismiss the dialog.

The issue I'm running into is that the dialog persists, so after entering the "mainMenu" room as expected, the say dialog is presented again and every time I dismiss it, it pops back up. Is there some other code required to formally dismiss that dialog?

// look for dead player
	if playerState=="dead" then
		if event.room=="playRoom" then
			ignore
			shake 2 then
				say "You pulled my finger...and lost."
				goto 0,0 in "mainMenu"
			end
		end
	end
#2

say allows you to perform and action upon completion, it's in the docs for say. You need to do:

say "You pulled my finger...and lost." then
  goto 0,0 in "mainMenu"
end
#3

Hi @scarboy, appreciate the response. Either approach is allowed according to the documentation, and I actually tried it your suggested way first. Both result in the same outcome - the dialog persists across rooms.

	// look for dead player
	if playerState=="dead" then
		
		if event.room=="playRoom" then
			ignore
			shake 2 then
				say "You pulled my finger...and lost." then
					goto 0,0 in "mainMenu"
				end
			end
		end
	end
#4

Do you have that logic inside the any event? I tried and was able to recreate it that way. I think what's happening is the event gets trigged a bunch of times while the shake is happening, causing the say prompt to get triggered many times. I was able to fix it like this:

on any do
	// look for dead player
	if playerState=="dead" then
		if event.room=="playRoom" then
		  log "{playerState} {event.room}"
			ignore
			playerState = "not_dead"
			shake 2 then
				say "You pulled my finger...and lost." then
					goto 0,0 in "mainMenu"
					listen
				end
			end
		end
	end
end

on confirm do
  log "confirmed"
  playerState = "dead"
end

If that's not what you're doing let me know and I can check it out.

#5

See if adding a wait helps.

say "hello" then
   wait 0.1 then
   goto 0,0 in "mainMenu"
   end
end
#6

Thank you all for the debug support. I think the issue had to do with calling the dialog from the main game loop event. I moved it into the room's any event, and then changed the order of my state calls. It's working as expected now, though I still suspect there might be a bug somewhere.

on any do
	
	if playerState=="dead" then
		say "You pulled my finger...and lost." then
			playerState = "static"
			goto 0,0 in "mainMenu"
		end
	end
	
end
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#7

I would not recommend adding arbitrary behavior to the any event handler. That catch-all event is really only meant to be used to call mimic "anotherTile”.

Instead of checking if the player is dead in an arbitrary event, I would suggest calling the game over logic where you’re currently setting playerState to “dead”. If you’re setting that state in multiple places I would recommend moving it to a custom event handler on the player like:

on die do
    playerState="dead"
    ignore
    say "You pulled my finger...and lost." then
        playerState = "static"
        listen
        goto 0,0 in "mainMenu"
    end
end

And call that event with:

tell event.player to
    call "die”
end
#8

Thanks again @shaun. Great suggestion. moved my player death event to the player script and rewired the state change commands. Everything working as expected.