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<< Continued from Part 10 A. Recruiting new characters in a cut scene There are two ways to add characters to the player’s army roster: using an XML tag in a cut scene, or using a script action. Let’s talk about adding characters in a cut scene using the XML…

<< Continued from Part 9 A. Adding and removing character tags with script actions As we discussed in Part 6B, a character tag is just data that we add to a character to change how the game sees her. Adding (or removing) a character tag is how we change the…

<< Continued from Part 8 A. Using ChangeCondition Welcome back! As promised, it’s now time to discuss changing battle conditions using script actions. Battle conditions, as you may recall from Part 5B, govern basic settings and rules for the battlefield. Using the ChangeCondition script action, we can actually change these…

<< Continued from Part 7 A. Intro to script actions We now know how to write dialogue and structure conversation trees, but we haven’t yet touched on the deepest, most powerful thing available to us in conversations (and arguably, in the game itself): script actions! Script actions are Telepath Tactics’s…

<< 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…