Tutorial-Blog Randomness in NPC Dialogue

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by @hiddenone

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[jonthefox]

This is a really solid tutorial. Loving this series. Thank you hiddenone!

 

[hiddenone]

I hope this gives people a few new ideas for their npcs, though I’ll admit that I do have a certain fondness for those random villagers whose only comment is a complaint about their neighbor.

If you have any evented systems or concepts you’d like to see tutorials for, please let me know! I’m always open to suggestions.

 

[jonthefox]

@hiddenone cutscenes! I feel like it takes me 3 hours just to get a 30 second sequence right. Given how important they are to a game's narrative, and how the difficulty of making them tends to "spike" compared to other engine features, I think this would be a great topic for a future tutorial.

 

[Candacis]

Love it, this is a very nice tutorial!
I would be interested in maybe a 2nd tutorial centered around npcs. This time maybe a simple routine they have, visiting different places in a village etc. But I don't know, if it can be evented.

 

[KakonComp]

If only all fair town maidens didn't mind you trespassing on their yard and rummaging through their trash.

As for evented concepts as a tutorial, I agree with @jonthefox about cutscenes. They're very important and time consuming, so any guidance on the topic is always appreciated.

 

[Kupotepo]

Thank you @hiddenone for the tutorial. I am really happy that you made the tutorial about the dialogues. I think of the ideas after reading and following your tutorial steps.
I think I will split the dialogues of the lore/interest information to 3 or 4 mini dialogues to encourage the players to be less stressed about reading the wall of texts.
So I could just feed to players' information more slowly.

Also, thank you for teaching me about little javascript knowledge.

 

[cchmaster]

Great tutorial. Especially you gave 3 different examples. I really learn a lot. Thank you.