Basics of Game Design

Storytelling in Games

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generic NPCs when major conditions in the game world change. A nice

tool the programming team should consider building for the design

team is a simple text editor that allows changes in dialogue to be tracked

throughout a chapter or even throughout the text in the whole game.

Flowcharting NPC Dialogue

Another tool the design team can create for themselves is a owchart

for the text responses by each NPC, especially if using a branching

dialogue structure. e chart can be created either in a word pro-

cessing document or spreadsheet, and the designers should settle

on an appropriate format structure for NPC ...