Lexicon: Learnable Fantasy Alphabets for GameMaker
A GameMaker asset from Core Systems Asset Factory. Made with GameMaker. Paid.
Lexicon: Learnable Fantasy Alphabets for GameMaker is a GameMaker asset for GameMaker, paid.
Lexicon is a GameMaker system that invents a 36 glyph writing system from a seed, writes it across your game and lets the player learn to read it. Royalty free in commercial games, and the alphabets it invents are yours. What is inside 6 script families · 26 letters and 10 numerals per script · 16 stroke primitives · 10 materials · 8 surfaces · raw GML Reading is the mechanic.
Signs, tombstones, pages, banners and dialogue all write in the invented script. When the player learns a letter, it turns readable everywhere it appears, at once, and your code never branches on whether a letter is known. Six families: staved, impressed, cursive, geometric, hanging and blocked, each with its own lattice of anchor points, allowed marks and joining.
The shapes are sampled from your seed and reproduce no real script. Letters a player can tell apart. Every letter is rasterised at 14 pixels, the size a dialogue box renders at, and compared against every accepted letter and their mirrors and half turns. A collision is resampled until it clears, and lxc_lexicon_report prints the worst pair your script achieved.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics
Paid · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.