A subtle way to aid in readers how to close down the pop ups
This is for Quest from TextAdventure.co.uk. I did not make Quest.
I discovered a way to tell readers how to close down the pop ups. What I do is I add an X.
What is a popup? If you click on a blue (or any color that is the same color as the links but without the underline), it'll pop up a box with text which can be coded in like this:
The X is based upon the X you see when you close out a web page.
The X isn't actually a real X button that you use to close webpages, and the reason is because you don't have to click the X at all.
You don't even have to add an X button.
You see, when a pop-up comes up, all you have to do is click anywhere on the pop-up and it'll close down. That's how it's programmed.
However, most people who use Quest to make games don't know about the popup feature, so most players don't know that all you have to do to close them out is to click anywhere on the pop-up.
As a result, I added an X.
Me adding an X to the page and making the X look important via formatting such as:
"She was beautiful, {popup:pleasant...:"But so... So deeply unsettling..."<b><u>X</u></b>}" Said Jason to his mother, Diana.
...adding underlining via <u></u> html coding and bolding via <b></b> html code allows players to feel they know how to close out the page without having to directly tell them if you're worried about such aid feeling out of place but not everyone knows that all they have to do is click anywhere on the pop up.
You can also include a tutorial such as:
If you click on highlighted words, you can see thoughts {popup:pop up!:Click anywhere on this pop up to close it out.}
Use the X, because throughout internet history, the X button was used for closing out webpages, so obviously the Netizen's brain correlates it with such, preventing confusion like "How do I close down this pop up?"
