The book "How to Make an RPG" shows you step-by-step how to make three fully featured RPGs. In this article we'll add a little polish the dialog code that's used in the cutscenes for the RPGs. All changes are made using the codebase for the final RPG: Cave ...
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The How to Make an RPG project is now at a state where it's ready for public release. You can buy it here.
This project, nearly three years in the making, takes a new programmer from drawing a ...
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In the previous article we used the How to Make an RPG game code to build a simple conversation engine like Never Winter Nights. The conversation we implemented was quite basic, in this article we'll extend the code to deal with more advanced features.
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In a previous article I looked at the Never Winter Nights conversation system and broke it down a little. In this article we'll implement a similar system using one of the How to Make an RPG examples projects as a base.
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A major component of RPG games is talking to people, uncovering motives, accepting quests, learning secrets and talking your way out of tricky situations. But natural language is a hard problem. When making a game we need conversation to manageable and therefore we need some type of abstraction.
It's ...
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Hello! This is a blog post updating you on how the book, How to Make an RPG, is going. The How to Make an RPG bundle includes a C++ engine, a collection of game art, a series of examples and digital book to show, step by step, how to make ...
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