added news ticker

TouchyTickets/Content/Content.mgcb

@@ -43,3 +43,6 @@
 #begin Localization/Localization.json
 /copy:Localization/Localization.json
 
+#begin Localization/News.json
+/copy:Localization/News.json
+

TouchyTickets/Content/Localization/Localization.json

@@ -44,5 +44,5 @@
     "ManualRideModifier": "Push and Shove",
     "ManualRideModifierDescription": "Increases the amount of people allowed on manual (walking-based) rides, tripling their ticket sales.",
     "SpiralSlideModifier": "Sightseeing",
-    "SpiralSlideModifierDescription": "Spiral slide visitors are given binoculars to look at adjacent rides, doubling their ticket sales."
+    "SpiralSlideModifierDescription": "New binoculars allow spiral slide visitors to check out adjacent rides whose ticket sales are doubled as a result."
 }

TouchyTickets/Content/Localization/News.json

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+[
+    "Carousel 7 broke down, but there is no mechanic available",
+    "Popular park now features \"buy seventeen, get one free\" ticket sale",
+    "Speed of ferris wheel set too high, causing whiplash",
+    "New park constructs never-before-seen \"log flume\" ride",
+    "Visitors allegedly getting lost in park due to too many paths that lead nowhere",
+    "Performance artist locks themselves in ferris wheel pod for eight weeks",
+    "Newspaper declares log flume high risk ride due to \"too many splinters\"",
+    "Newspaper declares log flume high risk ride due to them being \"too wet\"",
+    "Children excited by food stalls, saying \"soda soda soda soda soda\"",
+    "Ride ran in reverse accidentally, making passengers younger",
+    "Cotton candy reported missing after log flume ride",
+    "Umbrellas sold at half price due to passengers throwing up onto parkgoers",
+    "75% of population's colds caused by log flumes, scientists say",
+    "Height limit lifted for wooden coaster, making children happy",
+    "Pants in high demand at gift shop, allegedly due to house of horrors",
+    "Violinist linked to coaster crash blossoms",
+    "Log flume photos terrible due to water on lens",
+    "Park visitor out of money, starts selling souvenirs to continue riding",
+    "Uncomortable benches at food court causing visitors to eat lunch in bumper cars",
+    "Carousel \"too scary\" according to four year old child",
+    "Tall person mistaken for park performer on stilts"
+]

TouchyTickets/Localization.cs

@@ -3,35 +3,38 @@ using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Globalization;
 using System.IO;
 using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;
+using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content;
 using MLEM.Startup;
 using Newtonsoft.Json;
 
 namespace TouchyTickets {
     public static class Localization {
 
-        private static readonly Dictionary<string, string> Strings;
+        private static readonly Dictionary<string, string> Strings = LoadLocalized<Dictionary<string, string>>("Localization");
-
+        private static readonly List<string> News = LoadLocalized<List<string>>("News");
-        static Localization() {
+        private static readonly Random Random = new Random();
-            var location = GameImpl.Instance.Content.RootDirectory + "/Localization/Localization";
-            var culture = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TwoLetterISOLanguageName;
-            foreach (var path in new[] {$"{location}.{culture}.json", $"{location}.json"}) {
-                try {
-                    using (var reader = new JsonTextReader(new StreamReader(TitleContainer.OpenStream(path)))) {
-                        var ret = SaveHandler.Serializer.Deserialize<Dictionary<string, string>>(reader);
-                        if (ret == null)
-                            continue;
-                        Strings = ret;
-                        break;
-                    }
-                } catch (Exception) {
-                    // move on to the next path
-                }
-            }
-        }
 
         public static string Get(string key) {
             return Strings.TryGetValue(key, out var ret) ? ret : $"?{key}?";
         }
 
+        public static string GetRandomNews() {
+            return News[Random.Next(News.Count)];
+        }
+
+        private static T LoadLocalized<T>(string name) {
+            var location = GameImpl.Instance.Content.RootDirectory + "/Localization/" + name;
+            var culture = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TwoLetterISOLanguageName;
+            foreach (var path in new[] {$"{location}.{culture}.json", $"{location}.json"}) {
+                try {
+                    using (var reader = new JsonTextReader(new StreamReader(TitleContainer.OpenStream(path))))
+                        return SaveHandler.Serializer.Deserialize<T>(reader);
+                } catch (Exception) {
+                    // move on to the next path
+                }
+            }
+            throw new ContentLoadException();
+        }
+
     }
 }

TouchyTickets/TouchyTickets.csproj

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
     <ItemGroup>
         <PackageReference Include="Coroutine" Version="1.0.4" />
-        <PackageReference Include="MLEM.Startup" Version="3.3.3-199" />
+        <PackageReference Include="MLEM.Startup" Version="3.3.3-200" />
         <PackageReference Include="MonoGame.Framework.Portable" Version="3.7.1.189">
             <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
         </PackageReference>

TouchyTickets/Ui.cs

@@ -57,6 +57,17 @@ namespace TouchyTickets {
                         ticket.Draw(batch, e.DisplayArea.Size, e.Scale, Color.White * alpha);
                 }
             };
+            var currentNews = Localization.GetRandomNews();
+            var newsTicker = main.AddChild(new Panel(Anchor.AutoCenter, new Vector2(1, 0.05F), Vector2.Zero));
+            newsTicker.AddChild(new Paragraph(Anchor.CenterLeft, float.MaxValue, p => currentNews, true) {
+                OnUpdated = (e, time) => {
+                    e.PositionOffset -= new Vector2(1, 0);
+                    if (e.PositionOffset.X <= -e.DisplayArea.Width / e.Scale - 20) {
+                        e.PositionOffset = new Vector2(e.Parent.DisplayArea.Width / e.Scale + 20, 0);
+                        currentNews = Localization.GetRandomNews();
+                    }
+                }
+            });
             var ticketGroup = main.AddChild(new Group(Anchor.AutoCenter, new Vector2(1, 0.15F), false));
             ticketGroup.AddChild(new Paragraph(Anchor.AutoCenter, 10000, p => PrettyPrintNumber(GameImpl.Instance.Tickets) + "<i ticket>", true) {
                 TextScale = 0.3F
@@ -66,7 +77,7 @@ namespace TouchyTickets {
             });
             BigInteger lastTickets = 0;
             ActiveCoroutine storeWobble = null;
-            var storeGroup = main.AddChild(new CustomDrawGroup(Anchor.AutoCenter, new Vector2(1, 0.5F), null, null, false) {
+            var storeGroup = main.AddChild(new CustomDrawGroup(Anchor.AutoCenter, new Vector2(1, 0.45F), null, null, false) {
                 OnUpdated = (e, time) => {
                     if (lastTickets != GameImpl.Instance.Tickets) {
                         lastTickets = GameImpl.Instance.Tickets;