Florence is a game engine that can create choose your own adventure DOS games. Games written for the Florence Engine uses a small, simple scripting language, called FlorenceScript.
FlorenceScript is used to handle the flow of the game and to show pictures. Below is the small FlorenceScript file that shows us the language features.
> exit_message: A message.
> about_message: An about message.
[start_section]
This is the start label, the first place player goes. New lines are preserved as is, except when preceeded with a ^
sign, for instance this won't be preserved. Neither will the new lines before you start the text.
; Comments will also not be preserved, comments must start with a semicolon and continue until the end of the line.
; This goes on until we reach the choices, which are lines starting with *.
* choice_one
* choice_two
[choice_one]
Ah, another label, if a label is the ending label, then, simply point to.
-> exit
; Exit is a global label, directions such as this just direct you to the next label.
[!choice_two]
; This will directly go to choice_one after we show a picture, you can add labels with images by using the ! character.
image_name.png
: choice_two