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Structuring game narrative. Handling NPC, Quest, General Dialogue. Is Json/XML the right way to go? Or any other solutions?
It looks like you're trying to describe behaviour, and "tool for describing behaviour" is basically the definition of a programming language.
Data formats like XML and JSON suck for describing ...
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Dialogue trees voiceover
The professional way of doing that is to give the voice actor a script. A simple text document with all the lines you want them to say. You might also want to use this as an opportunity for adding ...
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Is it possible to use a string somehow converted to match name of a bool?
Storing your boolean condition variables in a dictionary keyed by strings as Patrick Hughes recommends will work just fine, but it can lead to your code being "stringly typed"
If we don't know the ...
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Is it possible to use a string somehow converted to match name of a bool?
It's not uncommon to store the variables used by the scripting system in a Dictionary with a string key. In my opinion, the "...
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Structuring game narrative. Handling NPC, Quest, General Dialogue. Is Json/XML the right way to go? Or any other solutions?
Data belongs into files and logic belongs into code.
If you try to encode logic in form of JSON files, you are essentially inventing a JSON-encoded scripting language. Unity already has a scripting ...
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Design patterns for non-modal (in-game) dialogues/cutscenes in a game engine
In game development, there is never just one solution to any given problem.
But one solution could be to create each active dialog as a separate, independent, invisible entity which references all ...
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Infinite character loop when trying to play Dialogue
once the conversation starts, it just prints out the letter c endlessly and goes into an infinite loop.
It sounds to me like that problem is probably that you keep retriggering the ...
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Design patterns for non-modal (in-game) dialogues/cutscenes in a game engine
There are much smarter people here than me, but I'll pitch in with my $.02.
You asked about how others would approach this problem building a game in an engine like Unity. While I have not built a ...
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Dialogue trees voiceover
According to their documentation, the plugin supports exporting dialog in a variety of formats. For something you can hand off to voice actors, you probably want to look at the Screenplay Format.
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looking for a system for writing branching dialog
I find the actual editing and management prohibitively hard when the tool itself doesn't allow hypertext.
I'd start with something like Twinery: https://twinery.org/
You can then devise a way to ...
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