Coding the Conversation System

Friday, February 9, 2024 at 6:51 PM

The new conversation screen showing red highlighted keywords and a keywords panel on the right side.

The new conversation screen showing red highlighted keywords and a keywords panel on the right side.

Hammering out the kinks with the conversation system in Age Of Singularity, my Ultima VI fan recreation project.

Lord British saying he cannot join your quest right now.

Lord British saying he cannot join your quest "right now."

The exciting part is to have the Keywords tab that adds keywords you discover, while still letting you manually discover them, and also adding the ability for a wider range of augmented responses based on the background of each character. For example, a weaver should be able to tell you about their tools and techniques by default.

The U6 portrait grid showing which characters have their dialogue in the database. About half are greyed out, not yet added.

The U6 portrait grid showing which characters have their dialogue in the database. About half are greyed out, not yet added.

Here's the original fb UDIC post.

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