godot-dialog

A simple system for conversational dialog, featuring a full fledged editor for none programmers and an example json parser. To add a new node you simply right click on the node graph, to pan use middle mouse button, and click and drag to move nodes around or connect them to one another.

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https://creikey.itch.io/godot-dialog

Format specification

Definitions

state node - a different state for the character to be in

state - the emotion, or state, of the text shown in the current state node

text - what the character says at that current state node

choices - the different choices the player can make when talking to the character

state stub - a helper state node used in the dialog editor to manage a sequence of related state nodes

Special notes

• States are stored as strings to remove floating point comparison errors in godot
• At state 0, the dialog is over
• States with no choices contain a next key that specifies the next state, typically after user input. This is used to provide different emotional states for one chain of dialog
• State that has the choice "inherit" will inherit the last used choices, useful for simple dialog

Dialog consists of a json file, which contains a root dictionary of states, as such:

{
	"1" : {
		"state" : "happy",
		"text" : "I'm feeling happy!",
		"choices" : {
			"Why do you feel happy?" : "2",
			"Goodbye" : "0"
		}
	}
	"2" : {
		"state" : "confused",
		"text" : "Because I do!?",
		"next" : "3"
	}
	"3" : {
		"state" : "normal",
		"text" : "Why would you even ask something like that?",
		"choices" : "inherit"
	}
}

There may be extra metadata keys unrelated to states to recreate the dialog in the editor