Taki - the Text Animation KIt - Micah Cowan (KansasFest/A24eVR 2024)
Micah Cowan will present Taki, his F/LOSS machine-language toolkit that allows you to easily add animations to your text output. Since the engine is in machine-language, even when you use it in your BASIC programs, the animations are butter-smooth. The primary target is for use in "somewhat gimmicky" adventure game engines; text continually animates while the user is typing commands at the prompt (including INPUT prompts). Make text slide in from the side - multiple lines coming in at different timings! Make it seem as if multiple lines are being typed out by multiple cursors simultaneously! Make the letters of a word continually "wave" - or make a word tremble, or wander around as you're viewing it! Use glitchy or flickering text! Make musical notes sound for each letter printed! All of this done with ease - even in AppleSoft! - using nothing but easy PRINT commands (using special control characters, much like DOS), and requiring only that your BASIC program be started after Taki has been loaded with BRUN.
https://github.com/micahcowan/a2taki