Organizing Dialog
To help simplify the process of creating the narrative for our game we decided to use spreadsheets to organize the dialog. This method made it easier for to lay out the narrative, and helped our narrative editor proofread without needing to go into the Unity engine or play through the game.
To help make the information within the spreadsheet easier to parse, color coding and indentation was utilized. Our main character's dialog is tinted in green, non-playable characters dialog is in red, purple was used for conditionals, and blue was used to represent choice based text.
To help make the information within the spreadsheet easier to parse, color coding and indentation was utilized. Our main character's dialog is tinted in green, non-playable characters dialog is in red, purple was used for conditionals, and blue was used to represent choice based text.
Keeping Track of Progress
As players progress in the game, the non-playable characters (NPC) they encounter's dialog changes to fit their current goals. Keeping track of these encounters was becoming difficult, so we utilized spread sheets to cross reference the integer used to track progress with what sort of dialog NPCs would provide the player with. The final column in the spreadsheet is used to track where the integer is incremented.
