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Standard way to show a character is preforming an action?

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2022 8:22 pm
by OrangeTeny
Hey everyone!
I'm new here and I started making my first web tease. I'm trying to make it semi-immersive- obviously it's not...real, but I'm having characters that talk, show actions and have accompanying sounds.

Now I have the following question: At a certain point I want this character to show the player images. However, I want to do it with an action, like: Asuna shows you a tablet with images. *image on your screen*.

What's the standard way to do it?
*Asuna shows you a tablet.*
//Asuna shows you a tablet.//
||Asuna shows you a tablet.||

These are a few ideas. I was thinking of using a dedicated colour but that might be hard to follow, and I want to use bold, underline and italics for emphasis..or maybe I should do it in italics after all and leave bold and underline and colour for emphasis?

What do you all think?

Re: Standard way to show a character is preforming an action?

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2022 12:09 am
by Shattered
Personally, I give all my characters a colour that they speak in, and then anything by the narrator is left in white, so it's distinct. I just mark it as a sentence though, no fancy punctuation like that used, I think that breaks immersion if anything.

We are writing visual novels, and novels can use descriptive sentences plainly just fine.

Re: Standard way to show a character is preforming an action?

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2022 5:58 pm
by OrangeTeny
I looked at some of your teases, that seems like a smart way to do it, thanks! I'll experiment a bit!

Re: Standard way to show a character is preforming an action?

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:09 am
by ritewriter
I do the same as Shattered fwiw. Seems to work well.