<< Continued from Part 6 A. Triggering dialogue with OnTurn We now have a basic understanding of how to create a new campaign, create new characters, put them in a roster, build battles, link those battles together into a sequence, and then add extra variety to our battles using certain…
<< Continued from Part 5 A. Adding items to objects and characters The time has come to learn how to add items to objects and characters! This is an important thing to know how to do, since it lets us give the player optional objectives in battle (like breaking open…
<< Continued from Part 4 A. Linking scenes Now that we have two scenes in our campaign–an introduction and a battle–let’s talk about how to make the game progress from one to the other so that we can actually play through them both! Every scene in the game, whether it’s…
<< Continued from Part 3 A. Creating a starting army roster Okay! Now that we have a couple of playable characters, it’s time to return to our campaign’s Introduction.xml file and put them into the player’s army roster. This will make it so the game treats them as recruited characters…
<< Continued from Part 2 A. Editing a character’s leveling attributes with <OnLevelUp> Only playable characters gain experience from defeating enemies; however, any character in the game can be leveled up through tags and scripts! If a character’s level is going to be changed in-game, then that character needs to…
<< Continued from Part 1 A. Create a playable character So! We now have a campaign with a basic narrative introduction. We’re going to want to create a battle, but first we need to give the player a roster of characters that she can use in the battle–and we can’t…
Greetings, everyone, and welcome to the first part of a series of tutorials where we learn how to create new campaigns in Telepath Tactics, step by individual step! (As we go, feel free to refer to the Telepath Tactics manual, which provides thorough documentation on every last thing you can…
With the Telepath Tactics soundtrack close to finished, I figured it would be a good time to sit down and chat with Ryan Richko, the man behind most of the game’s score. Here, he talks about composing for video games, and about composing the music of Telepath Tactics specifically. Read…
Today, I have decided to start a new feature: ask me anything! For this day only, I am opening up my site to questions from you, the fans. Have a question? Send me a tweet, or comment below, and I’ll update this post with my answer! Without further ado: Winter…
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Today, in honor of the Day of Love, we are going to learn how to speak the most romantic language of all time: Lissit! (Or “lizardtongue,” as it is sometimes called by the humans of Cera Bella.) Let’s get started with some basic pronouns: si…
