Global (Hero) Scenarios

Global (or Hero) Scenario is an additional, special place to write Scenarios. You can find it by going to the Hero tab of the Whimtale editor, and then pressing the Scenario tab.

As the Hero is always on-screen when playing a Whimtale project, this Scenario sheet will always listen to events, even when the Hero is hidden. This can be useful in many use cases:

• You can create one-time triggers when a Hero enters a specific Scene, or one of the Scenes;
• You can listen to specific signals to play sound effects, show messages, or do other gameplay logic: for example, to implement a "Game over" screen;
• You can also listen to A/B button presses and move across Stages to create an inventory screen, or collectibles summary, or an overworld Scenes.

Shortly, whenever you create scripts that should be reusable or global, they can be written in the Hero Scenario.

The Scenario editor will differ a bit from the one you will find in the Actors tab: many actor-related blocks are not available in the Hero tab, because they would either make no sense, or because same actions can be implemented with hero-specific blocks already. (For example, instead of "Set visibility" block, you can use "Hide or show the Hero".)