The novel template becomes the intended layering: collection novel_template
lists my_novel_game (its own scenes, scenarios, text), town_pack (reusable
backgrounds and the bar ambience) and the engine. The town entrance and the
home vestibule move from cthangover_game into town_pack instead of being
copied; cthangover_game depends on it. Docs explain how to start a game from
these three layers.
The mod holding the main game's own scenes and story follows the <game>_game
naming rule; further parts stay <game>_<part>, reusable content is <theme>_pack.
A collection is no longer a file inside a mod: it is a package (folder or zip)
named after its id with collection.json, cover and optional locale/, shipped in
collections/ next to the mods or kept by the player in user://collections/.
Covers and texts come from the package; mods do not ship collections.
Mods are renamed by role (shell2d_base, menu_base, ui_base, live2d_base,
editor_tools, cthangover_story, cthangover_murakami, cthangover_party) and
every reference follows. Engine UI prefabs (dialog, answers, message, game
menu, inventory, map, skills) and their panel entries moved out of the story
mod into the subsystem mods; the card_novel and vn_starter_novel collections
are removed.
- An empty select "" carries no key=: the prompt keys go from the
scenarios and from the locale files.
- Scenario option strings live only in scenarios_<lang>.properties; the
duplicates in en/ru.properties are removed.
- English names/info for the map zones (mapzone/home, town_entry).
- locale/scenarios_ru.properties: Russian scenario strings get their own
file next to scenarios_en.
Findings of the resource atlas: engine and shell mods took these
resources from the content mod without depending on it.
- Main menu music (Serpent's Lament + the mainmenu playlist) -> base_menu.
- Battle win/defeat sounds -> turn_battle_base; UI sounds close_click and
skip -> interface; card selection effect -> card_battle.
- Journal notification texts (ui/journal/new, updated) -> quests_base;
settings screen texts (settings/*) -> base_menu.
- depends now declares characters_base, items_base and quests_base, whose
resources the content uses.
- collections/cthangover.json: the main game as a "game" collection — the
story with characters, quests, items and cooking, both battle cores,
recruitment, Live2D and the developer tools; entry scene start_scene,
battle.core = card_battle, cover, en/ru texts.
- vn_starter_novel: entry scene and battle core settings; the story block
pulls starter_party, the battle block pulls card_battle.
cthangover