# New arcade-story extension

**URL:** <https://forum.makecode.com/t/new-arcade-story-extension/6744>\
**Category:** Arcade\
**Tags:** extension\
**Created:** [March 12, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/new-arcade-story-extension/6744 "2021-03-12T17:33:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![richard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/richard/32/5417_2.png) [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/new-arcade-story-extension/6744/1 "2021-03-12T17:33:53Z")

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Hey folks!

Today I am happy to announce that the story extension ( **riknoll/arcade-story** ) has finally graduated into an official package. You can now find it in **microsoft/arcade-storytelling** and in the default list of extensions in the Arcade editor. It looks like this:

 ![Screen Shot 2021-03-12 at 9.16.58 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/makecode/original/2X/3/38b446dfbf1f50dbc7ce0ae11719e2665163176a.png)

There are also a few changes to the blocks that I’ve made based on using the extension in streams and seeing people use it on the forum:

1. **All of the “Text” and “Movement” blocks now pause until they finish**. For text, that means waiting until all of the characters have been printed to the screen. For movement, it means waiting until the sprite reaches the destination
2. **The “queue story part” block has been removed**. The overwhelming feedback was that this block was confusing. Instead, there is now a “start cutscene” block that you can place story blocks inside.
3. **Added “set sound enabled” block**. This lets you turn off the sounds that play when each character is printed.
4. **Added “is menu open” block**. This lets you check if the “show player choices” menu is open or not, which is useful inside of “on button pressed” events.
5. **Added “get last answer” block**. This lets you get the last answer chosen by “show player choices” as a string.
6. **Added “set page pause length” block**. This lets you configure how long the text blocks pause in between pages of text.
7. **Temporarily removed the “move to tilemap location” block**. This one will be coming back, but is temporarily removed while we get the a-star extension officially approved.

Try it out and report any bugs in this thread or [on GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/pxt-arcade/issues). Also, please note that **this extension is NOT COMPATIBLE with riknoll/arcade-story**. You’ll get a ton of errors if you add them both to the same project.

I’ll be showing this extension off on the livestream (hopefully today at 1:00 PM PST on [twitch.tv/msmakecode](http://twitch.tv/msmakecode))