NPC Conversation Mapping

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Hey guys, fellow developer here.

So, I know NPCs haven’t gotten a lot of attention in the past due to the complications of working with NPCs. (To be fair, it’s a pain). Was wondering if it’d be possible perhaps to actually use a program called ChatMapper to create scripted JSON interactions for NPCs that could be dynamically loaded and added to the game. So it’d be possible to pre-write some characters and have their dialogue in the game.

I often want to help Cataclysm by adding features and such in the code. My tinkering usually results in horrible results (mostly because I’m an established C# programmer, and it takes a way-too-tremendous and intimate knowledge of how CDDA is coded to really add in features that haven’t already been added in.) I feel like I could contribute by writing some of these scripted interactions in chatmapper, including skillchecks and other traitchecks. (Chatmapper supports all of that)

Here’s a link to the application:

http://www.chatmapper.com/

What do you guys think?

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I haven’t looked at chatmapper yet, but this is exactly where I want NPC dialogue to go.

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If chatmapper is easy enough to use, several people could each take on a particular npc, write dialogue for them, and contribute a potluck of individuals. That’d take a lot of tedium out of the overhaul process, perhaps. God going back to class next Monday is gonna suck, I’d be interested in helping with that, as a non-coder.

Downloaded, at least for curiosity’s sake, and potential later use. It’s easier to trap myself into doing things when I’ve done part of the footwork in advance of my freetime heh.

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If this happens I have dibs on Makayla dialogue.

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More to the point, there are folks who are kinda in need of dialogue waiting (not-so, but with reason) patiently in the background. Getting their dialogue in would be Nifty.