IBT Survival Island - Regular Update

In these regular updates we will bring fresh content to Hive in the form of our game coding experiences; IBT is a developing PC game - the one to have future Crypto interactions.

NPC Text response is working

After some hair pulling moments and long hours we have managed to perfect the speech template. Yep, yay!! it's sweet, the approach and code is repeatable, love it!!..completed and working. Like most things in IBT it needs a few finishing touches, like we need to tweak a few things but overall we have an interactive speech system that is easy to understand and use; having this running perfectly means I can get into the fun of story
progress and encounter tweaking for classic mode. This is gonna be awesome...

The UE4 behavior tree

There are so many ways of doing things in UE4 but some choices can be time consuming and tricky. So with the new speech system we decided to use the UE4 behavior tree. Its a lot easier than running blueprints and can be added to any NPC with just a few easy clicks. Overall it gives better performance and one whole conversation can be included in just one tree which can branch out into tonnes of different topics.

Adding characters and speech

Making a RPG game isn't as simple as hoped when we first started this thing. There is a heck of a lot involved and once you get started the job seems bigger and bigger. Character development is also an important part of an RPG game since you will be meeting various types of people and holding conversations with them. To be able to add all these characters you need to write about them and place the whole conversation into a flow chart. From answers to responses everything has to be noted and written out.

Well, that's it for this week, another busy week and a few steps closer to our goal.

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