I’ve decided to pivot the game to a dating sim instead, you meet people, talk with them, go on dates…etc. I’ll just find one or two obscure games no one has played and copy from them, it’s super easy and nobody will catch me doing it. I’ll even use this aye thing and buy a tutorial that comes with a project I can just modify and ship it. Gamers don’t care about quality<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\nFor legal (and also non-legal) reasons, all the above was a (sad) joke. Here’s the real devlog instead:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1- Oasis Dream Level<\/h2>\n\n\n\n I started experimenting with dream sequences, since dreams are going to be a significant enough part of the story. I made blockouts and basic gameplay prototype of two scenes.<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe first scene is a desert scene, with an oasis and a huge hourglass. The sand and rocky mountain are almost done, I just need to adjust the shader to blend between the objects and terrain. Everything else is just a blockout at this point.
2- Train Dream Level<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe other scene is a long twisted train. At first I was going to change the gravity direction, but Unreal doesn’t expose it as a vector (only a scalar strength), so instead I programmed it to reset the player’s position back to 0 on the Y axis (forward\/backward relative to the train), and then I just moved the train itself instead.
3- NPC Chatter system<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSince gossip, small talk and communication is a big part of the daily life in a village, I decided to spend more time and thought on NPC chatter system. The idea is to “hear” (see text) conversations when you’re walking, they won’t be important to the story most of the time. When you get closer to two or more chattering NPCs, the text becomes more opaque (because you can hear better).too<\/em> close. Distance and dialogue lines are adjustable, so it can be something like “shush, someone’s coming, let’s change the subject”, or “oh hello there! nice weather we’re having today?”, or even just start an important conversation I want the player to hear : you are walking closer and closer, and they are talking about some random unrelated things, but when you’re close they switch to “oh btw did you hear about this person doing this important event ?” and they continue talking between each other, and you can eavesdrop.For anyone interested in the technical details : the basic logic is this : I made a chattering NPC class. Each actor of that class has a text array with the dialog lines, and on each tick it checks if the player is within range, and if that actor has the variable “is trigger” set to true (ie. that NPC’s turn to talk). If true, the line is displayed on screen, and when it’s done displaying it will increment the “current line” variable. If the NPC has a chatter partner selected, then trigger will be set to false for the current actor, and set to true for the partner.This setup is not limited to two characters, it can be 3 or even more, working one after the other (only one can have trigger=true at a time, and it’s passed from one to another).In the diagram above, in the case of chain chatter, even though the trigger goes sequentially through A B C, the chatter appears to the player as follows :
That’s mostly it for this week. Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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