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Are there frameworks for reasoning about questions such as: Given my quest and level design, is it guaranteed that for any combination of player choices there is no way for the player to lock ...
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I'm working on an open-world game and exploring procedural generation to design dynamic quests. The goal is to make quests feel connected and impactful, rather than randomly generated or repetitive. ...
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I have recently run into errors when building my Unity VR app for the Meta Quest 2 - and I wanted to check my understanding of something - from everything I've found it sounds like there is a max file ...
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I am using Postgres to create an Online RPG. I am creating a game and I want quests to be as variable as possible. I am wondering if JSONB is the solution. The alternative is to create a bunch of ...
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More often than not, 2D and 3D games markup interactive NPCs (and objects) with the exclamation mark symbol. Typically yellow. But of course, sometimes it's an "i" or a small cloud, or other ...
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I've been fascinated by this talk ever since I watched it: GDC Vault Jon Ingold (Inkle) - Narrative Sorcery: Coherent Storytelling in an Open World It proposes an implementation to simplify the ...
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I'm having a planning issue with writing quests for my game. Let me give an example: During one of the steps of a quest, the player is sent to a nightclub to ask some questions. There are several ways ...
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Lately I've been working on a FPS game with a storyline in unity and I've encountered something that has been making my head explode for days. My objective is to be able to force the player to do a ...
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Context I'm working on a small visual novel-style game, telling the story of a defense attorney and investigator. The story is split into chapters, with each chapter being a new case, and there are ...
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I have this quest manager script where I store all my quests for easy duplication. I'm adding a feature that gives the player the option to see his/her current to-do quest. The first thing I ...
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I'm trying to create a quest (in RPG Maker MV) where the player has to collect 35 berries. But when I go to create the conditional branch, this is what I see: It does not let me add a number limit, ...
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I'm creating an online RPG game and I've been looking around for a way to save players' progressions in quests in MySQL. I've been looking at Pim Jager's answer answer for a while and I've come to the ...
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I want to generate missions out of more or less predefined smaller chunks. Example mission structure: Mission type: Rescue Travel through forest Gather intel Choice: Sneak into castle (if it fails, ...
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I want to build a quest system in PHP. My idea so far was to create quests based on a class and write two functions for every quest: One is checking if its activated, the other will check the progress....
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This question in very similar to this question, however I am still confused about how one would implement a story and quests in a finite state automaton RPG. This is my first game that I am making (...
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I am developing a quest system for a game and am looking for the most abstract way to go about connecting the system to the NPC conversation system. This isn't much of a question about the code to do ...
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I've started working in a quest system for my game, but I stumble in a zone where I have to many, if/else conditions to handle a quest, whether you have X and Y item in your inventory, whether you ...
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Are there any format for storing quest data that can be processed independently by third-party tools? I don't want to code quests in code, because it will be hard to update and extend them, so I just ...
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I'm currently working on a scriptable questing system. As for scripting, I will probably use JavaScript, but I'd appreciate some help with the design of the system. My first attempt essentially ...
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Assume you're working on an RPG like Fallout and you have all sorts of flags and variables tracking the state of the world. Stuff like: Talked to NPC X Opened chest Y Completed quest 1 Visited some ...
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We have an online game where players sometimes have to wait a while (say 30 minutes) before a process they intiated completes. This encourages them to come back later. An example of this is growing ...
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I am looking for a way to include scrolling text boxes in a jMonkey game. I have, of course, looked around online and could not find any examples or libraries that fit. My goal is to have "quests" ...
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I am building a game in jMonkey (Java) and I have so far only used default quest text. But now I need to start populating a lot of quests with text. My design requires A LOT of quests texts. What is ...
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I'd like to determine the attributes of a quest (i.e., information provided by functions such as QuestIsDaily and IsQuestCompletable) before the player clicks on the quest detail. I'm trying to ...
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What tools, patterns, or best practices would you recommend to implement the quest mechanics given below listed requirements? I am talking about software architecture (how generic should you be) and ...
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Kill X number of monsters. Gather Y number of items (usually by killing X number of monsters). Deliver this NPC's package to this other NPC who is far far away. etc. Yeah. These quests are easy ...
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