A Question about Breaking the fourth wall.

[Terran0va 0]

Reviving this forum account to ask this.

I've been looking about for an answer, both using google and going upon the r/rpgmaker discord without much help
mainly because I cant code at all (that's why I'm using RPG Maker in the first place ._ .")

How could I make .txt files appear to help with a puzzle of sort, that breaks the fourth wall, kind of like how oneshot put the journal entry in your documents?
and Could I use these .txt files remember stuff so it knows what things you've done before, even if it doesn't use the regular save function?

I know this is dumb to ask because I can't code at all but ._ .

I've been sent to these two sites being told they would be of help but me and my terrible brain just see a jumble of letters and symbols without any constructive meaning.

Endless Illuion Software
and
Node.js

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[Dexter 9]

Well I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, if you're trying to open a txt file in game with something like notepad or something that is impossible with MV because that is prohibited in JavaScript for security reasons. However you can easily enough read a text a file and store that data in a variable in your game and display it in game. Another less elegant way would be to use blobs but that would need the player to save the created text file manually.

 

[Kayzee 4,033]

Pretty sure they are asking about writing text files not reading them, but that's also probably not allowed by javascript. You could do it in Ruby with RPG Maker VX Ace though! You would still have to code of course.

Edited October 28, 2020 by Kayzee

[PhoenixSoul 1,404]

Some kind of journal that is non-reliant on game saves.

Sounds like global save data stuffs to me. I dunno about MV, but there's at least a dozen scripts for VX Ace that do this.