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RPG dialogue Development Enviroment

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RPG dialogue Development Enviroment

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I spend an afternoon in creating a development enviroment for the dialogue system of the RPG module.

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I created this for shorten the scripting process of Kelgar, but I want to share it with you.
This is a Beta, please give feedback.

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looks pretty good so far, initially I thought it was a testing environment but now I realize that it's the other way around, where you can actually input the desired output to get the required input. Nice. It'd be a pretty interesting system if you could use drag-and-drop templates to set up a conversation or inventory system. This last idea is a bit of a joke, but you could have tips and such thrown in, maybe explanations of what things do, the explanations could be turned on and off as needed, but that would help a first-time user learn about the way the RPG dialogue system works.
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The current version of Scratch does not have an object duplicate function :(
I could do sort of a help button, which toogles help. It could be shown when hovering over sth.
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That's awesome, thank you so much. That really helps keep things strait for a newbie. A brief help section about linking responses with each other would be nice. Took me a bit to get that one but over all it's well thought out and very helpful. I'd be happy with a simple help file briefly outlining it.
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Thank you :D
Originally I wanted to do an enviroment with graphical nodes you can drop and connect.
I dropped this idea back then, because of the restrictions of the framework I used (Scratch). The new version of it does include object cloning now, though, so one should be able to implement my original idea using it. Sadly, I currently have not enough time to.
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That would be awesome I was thinking of making something that simply color codes cubescript with Notepad++ or CodeBlocks (both open source and awesome). I'm in to making things easy. I also like writing and once I understand things a bit more I plan on writing in depth scripting tutorials about all the things that I think beginners like me might get confused about ... Yeah, I don't know who decided that 24 hours was enough for one day cycle, especially for a student.
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I will not do the node thing. It would be really helpful, but I have other priorities.

I usually use the color code stuff being compatible with C++, since the languages are kinda similar.
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Was this written in flash? If so, why?
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Nope. It was written in Scratch: scratch.mit.edu
It's a framework designed in fact for children, but it is useful for adults to create quickly prototypes, too.

It would be cool to have a dialogue enviroment written in Javascript and HTML5, since that would work on most computers without requiring additional work to port it.
Alternatively one could use FreePascal/Lazarus together with a 2D graphics library.
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Why did you not use Java? That's pretty easy to learn, and I'm pretty sure it's cross platform.
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