Complete Examples and Explanations

After learning so much, let’s look at real examples!

This chapter contains three progressively advanced examples:

📝 Writing Simple Dialogue

The simplest introductory example, suitable for:

• Just starting to learn Mortar
• Want to see results quickly
• Creating a simple NPC dialogue

You’ll learn:

• Basic nodes and text
• Simple event binding
• Basic choice jumping

📖 Creating Interactive Stories

A complete interactive short story, suitable for:

• Want to create branching narratives
• Need multiple choice layers
• Making text adventure games

You’ll learn:

• Complex choice structures
• Conditional logic
• Multiple ending design
• String interpolation

🎮 Integrating with Your Game

Complete process of actual integration with game engines, suitable for:

• Planning to use Mortar in projects
• Need to understand JSON output
• Want to implement your own parser

You’ll learn:

• Compilation process
• JSON structure parsing
• Function call implementation
• Runtime execution logic

We recommend reading in order, each example is a bit more complex than the previous one.

Ready? Start with Writing Simple Dialogue!