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I'm working on a masters thesis on game AI. More specifically, it is about creating a type of dynamic dialogue system. I'm looking for an easily moddable game that meets certain requirements:
Is flare a good choice for this?
Thank you.
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I believe conscious decisions were made to avoid either multiplayer or complex NPC and dialogue interactions. Neither would be possible without heavy editing of the code, but as with anything open source, you're always welcome to fork it yourself.
Is it possible to author at least basic branching dialogue?
It's not currently possible to do even basic branching dialog, though if you're interested enough in it, it's possible (even probable?) that one of our developers would implement this feature.
Note that we have no scripting language; all dialog is currently handled in ini-style configuration files.
As interested as I would be in seeing Flare as the subject of a research project like this, I'd actually recommend *against* it. I love Flare, but I doubt it's what you're looking for.
Thanks for the straight answer. Do you know of any other open source games that may be suited for this?
If you like roguelikes, I'd recommend ToME. It's completely LUA scripted and has a lot of content (network and otherwise).
I can't say I know of any action RPG projects that are scriptable like that.
@JvJ:
What exactly are your requirements? If all you need is showing NPC portraits and a dialog system, I'd guess we could hack something together from scratch.
As interested as I would be in seeing Flare as the subject of a research project like this, I'd actually recommend *against* it. I love Flare, but I doubt it's what you're looking for.
I can second this. You may have a look at http://manasource.org/ which is a Client/Server based approach (so multiplayer/networking is there) Lua is used as the scripting language for the server, so you can do branches, loops etc. The client software is quite developed, the server has been used only once so far in http://www.sourceoftales.org/ (The current running server is from 6 mothes ago, with some bugs :/ due to judgeing the lpc is late. (http://lpc.opengameart.org/) so rather checkout the latest versions for testing if it meets your requirements)