Game logic - Dialogue – Ylands

Description

Shows player a window of predefined options, which can be selected from. Each option then can execute its own sequence of actions.

• Dialogue between player and world entity (i.e NPC)
• Initiated via Show dialog instruction
• Player selects from pre-defined answers
• Each answer can call different script instructions
• Selected answer is obtained via Answer id, when On answered event is called (see example)

Properties

• Question - question shown
• Answer options - list of possible answers, number of option → Id
• Show leave button - whenever to show "leave" button or not

Events

• On open - called when dialog start
• On answered - called when dialog option is selected
• On closed - called when leave button clicked

Instructions

• Show dialog - opens dialogue window
• Get/Set question - get or set dialogue question
• Get/Set answer text - get or set specific dialogue option by Id
• Get/Set answer enabled - get, enable or disable specific dialogue option by Id

Literals

• Dialogue - target dialogue game logic
• Questioner - entity asking question
• Player - target player answering dialog
• Answer id - Id of selected answer (as in properties)

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