Basics of Game Design

Dialogue in Games

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episodic structure does not cause contradictions in the script logic

or problems trying to acquire items or get to important places in the

game world.

As an example, suppose that in the earlier example there are four

keys the player must acquire to gain access to the villain’s lair. If the

player can go aer the four keys only one at a time, the plot is linear

and the chapter structure works well. If, however, the player can go

aer all four keys concurrently, then there can be considerable over-

lap of conditions the game logic must deal with. e NPCs have to be

able to respond correctly to the current state of aairs and ...