Game Making Guides
Adding Actions to Conversations
This guide will show you how to add actions to your conversation, and how to make it so
that different actions happen depending on what the player chooses to say.
We’re going to go through a simple example where if you’re nice to a character they give
you some gold, but if you’re nasty they attack you.
1. Set the tag and faction of the character you will talk to
Once again we need to set the tag of an object in order to make interesting things happen
with it.
1. Select the character the player will talk to
2. Check that the Faction ID is set to
‘Commoner’ or ‘Defender’ so they can
talk to the character
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3. Change the tag to something you will
remember – you’ll have to type this out exactly
in a minute so you might want to write it down!
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2. Write an interactive conversation
We covered the basics of conversations in a previous worksheet so you may already have a
suitable conversation which you can add actions to. If not you can create a new
conversation.
This very simple
conversation gives the
player two choices of how
to respond to the NPC’s
greeting
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3. Add actions to your conversation
2. Make sure you have one of your
player lines selected – choose the
friendly one to start with
3. Click on ‘Add’
4. Click on arrow
1. Click on the ‘Actions’ tab
Once you’ve clicked on the arrow you’ll
see a big list of different names appear.
These are the names of ready-made
‘scripts’ which describe the rules for
how characters and objects should
behave. There are lots of scripts already
written for different types of actions
and we’re going to make use of two of
these in this example.
Double-click on ‘ga_give_gold’ – in this example
we’re going to have the NPC give the player some
gold if they choose the friendly option.
Once you’ve double-clicked on the name of the script, the screen will change.
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You’ll see the name of the script you chose appear
here
And some code will appear here – this is the script
which makes the action happen!
You won’t need to use the scripting language to create the rules – you can use the
readymade scripts to do lots of interesting things. Scroll down to look at the whole script if
you’re interested in seeing how it works. For now we will just be filling in boxes which will
customise the readymade scripts to work for your game.
1. Click on the ‘Refresh’ button
2. This will bring up some extra text and boxes –
type the amount of gold you want to give the
player into the box labelled ‘nGP (Int)’
(Ignore this other box for now)
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That’s one action created – now for the action which happens if the player says something
nasty!
1. Now select the other option
2. Click on ‘Add’
3. And click on the arrow again
This time double click on ‘ga_attack’ – this is
the script that makes an NPC attack the player
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1. Click on ‘Refresh’
2. Enter the tag of the NPC exactly as
you typed it in the properties window
(this won’t work if you don’t type it
exactly the same!)
Again – you can ignore the other options for now,
they’re fine as they are
You can see in the actions column
that you’ve added actions to both
of the player’s lines
Now check that the conversation is properly added to your NPC!
1. If you haven’t already done so,
rename the conversation to
something memorable
2. Add the conversation in the
NPC’s properties window
4. Play your game and test your conversation
Does it work in the way you expected it would?
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