Tasks:Dialogue

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Overview

The dialogue engine drives the conversations between player and NPCs.

Dependencies

• Widget set and User Interface for parts other than lowlevel code

Requirements

• Mainly needs be ported from v0.3 branch to v0.4 (done)
• Only lowlevel functionality implemented in the game engine (done)
• GUI should be written in Python, to allow modifications by game authors
• GUI should contain history of conversation
• GUI should display NPC (and possibly player) portrait
• Player's choices should be numbered from 1 to n

References

• Introductory chapters in dlgedit manual [1]
• Test script for dialogue engine in CVS
• Code of the Python support module