Slowing down the speed of dialog

[BerserkerTails]

In the opening of my game, there's a scene in which alot of dialog is printed. Unfortunatley, the speed might be too fast for some readers. Is there anyway I could slow down the rate at which the text is displayed?

Thanks in advance!

[scotch]

You can set the text speed by setting game.text_speed, the default is 15, higher means speech stays longer.

So for slow text you might put

game.text_speed = 25;

[Etcher Squared Games]

is there a way to make it where the next line only comes on like a mouse click, and not to automatically switch after so much time?

[CodeJunkie]

esg - you could try making an object with the image as the text pasted onto it.  Image should probably be full screen size, but as it's only about 4 colours it won't be too big.  Say the text was object 0, you could make it turn on object 0 when necessary, and the finish the script there.  In the interactions for object 0 you could make 'Any click on object' remove it and then either run a new script or cycle to another object with more text on.
Alternatively you could use WaitMouseKey, and set the timer to a period long enough for anybody to read the text.
It's a bit inefficient, but it should work.  You should probably try a different way if you have lots of text though.

[TheJBurger]

You could also just change the options of the Speech in the Game options so that the game speech won't advance until a key is pressed, or the mouse is clicked.