Narrative Game #7 - Dialogue Enhancements & Early Cutscene Implementation

So many things, and I forgot to write about them over the past few weeks!

The video shows the main character playing hide and seek with his daughter, ending with him finding her behind a tree before they hear the arrival of an ice cream truck-- this is all for now, more dialogue will follow in the coming weeks.

Over the past couple of weeks I have been working on the project, where I have overall been involved in:

• Gameplay programming

• Gameplay design

• Sound design

• Level design

The video shows plenty of new additions/improvements:

Dialogue System:

• Dialogue typewriter effect (each letter is displayed sequentially)

• Dialogue typewriter skip (player can press E to skip watching the type effect)

• Dialogue blip sound effect (I designed this myself using "ChipTone")

• Dialogue handling for multiple characters in a scene

• Dialogue elements can play specific sounds, if applicable

Cutscene Directing:

• Use of Cinemachine for Camera-work (following player and keeping within boundaries)

• Use of "Playable Director" component with Timeline to compose a basic cutscene

Other (levels, other narrative-related implementations):

• Sound implementation for ambience and environment

• Designed scenes

• Fade in/out transition for use between scenes

• Early implementation of a "story-board" format

• Internal GUI handle clean-up