# Gester
A game engine for console based text game
```s
pip install gester
```
See an example text game
```
$ gest gernards_tale.gest
Enter your player name: Alex
Hello Alex. Welcome to Gernard's Tale
You are about to enter a mistic and eerie world, full of wonders
that will unfold before your eyes. Your progress will be saved
automatically
Are you ready to proceed? (y/n): n
```
The above gameplay is bought about by a game script `gernards_tale.gest`
which look like:
```
[input: name] Enter you player name:
Hello {name}. Welcome to Gernard's Tale
You are about to enter a mistic and eerie world, full of wonders
that will unfold before your eyes. Your progress will be saved
automatically
[yes_or_no: p] Are you ready to proceed?
[{p} no]
[abort]
[endblock]
...
```
Go check out `example/` directory for more example.
Gest command will invoke the game engine which will read the game
script file (.gest file) and present the game on the command window
## Features
Using Gest you can make text based games with
- Simple syntax
- Use variable to store real-time values
- IF Conditioning to make decision branches
- Play background music
- Make several `scenes` to partition and branch out your story
- Write comments using `#` in your .gest file
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