I Made an Advanced JSON Dialog System in Godot

EDIT: Now available as a github project at github.com/Amberlim/GodotDialogSystem I’m planning on releasing this dialog to json as an open source plugin. i didn’t want to release plugins in the past because answering code questions and debugging and revisiting old projects are not dream tasks to do, and that comes with maintaining a plugin, keeping it up to date and such. The way my tutorials are set up, it’s all more big-picture-sque. I try to encourage people to be creative. There is no right answer with creating game systems, and it’s very much about what kind of systems your specific game needs, and most of the fun, methinks, is in figuring the best way out of many ways to do something. But this current dialog editor is pretty multipurpose and straightforward that i think it’s worth releasing it to anyone who might find it helpful. It doesn’t generate or design dialog boxes for you. All it does is generate a JSON file—your massive dictionary of dialog—that you can use in any way you like in your own game. If you can work with JSON, you already have a pretty good idea of how dialog systems work. If you didn’t, I hope that my dialog videos has helped you more or less get a grasp of how to use it. It allows for a lot of customisation visually and also code-wise in your own game. Let me know if you would my dialog editor to be released as an open source project on GitHub in the comments here.

I hope this would be a public plugin soon, it looks really simple to use and I can't wait to try it.

This looks so polished and cute! Making complex systems is really satisfying. Nice one!

My word I have been waiting months for someone to even address the concept of voiced dialogue in Godot, you're giving me so much hope rn, thank you

Looks great! Any plans on updating it for 4.2?

First time visitor and I really liked your presentation plus the Dialog system looks really neat. Oh and you have a new subscriber!

I've been writing in Godot my first 3D game in an ECS framework and watching GDC talks from Firewatch and Aarthificial have helped a bit (the event only polling to other dialogue nodes based on rules and facts has been difficult to understand mentally and I needed to see how you thought through your dialogue editor in Godot!)

very cool

Will it be a public plugin?

:D !!

i really loved

@AmberLimShin You could use the XLIFF files for translations

Impressive system! I've always wanted to make a Deus Ex style dialog system, and wondered how they got it to execute scripts when running certain parts of the dialogue tree. One other thought I had - I wonder if there would be any benefit to assigning each node a GUID/UUID. It would allow referencing arbitrary nodes, but at the risk that a node gets deleted but references to it don't. I also wonder how it could scale to handle thousands of lines of dialogue. Now you've got me thinking...

Damn, I just finished my dialogue system too. Not as fancy, though

Why didn't you use dialog which the official team suggested?

I just used Dialogic for my project, kekw.

i like the simple comedy in your videos.

Oh, i was trying make something like this at last summer, and did it, but much primitive(... I like your system, it looks awesome

This reminds me a lot about DavetheDevs Godot 3 Dialog System! I already wrote half my script, but I wish I found this sooner..

Great, so informative and simple. Straight to the point!