Question on selecting choices by NPC about ink-unity-integration HOT 3 CLOSED

On Sun, 6 Aug 2017 at 7:40 pm, Clément Busschaert ***@***.***> wrote: What's sure is the AI has to be on your game side (Ink's logic is fine enough for state-logging, but not actual AI), so what you need is - a way for the game to know there are options to choose from - a way for the game to know what the options are and what they "mean" - a way for the game to choose the option. You could have a line in the ink code saying "okay, these choices are for this character", like with tags and stuff. * some player choice # npc Mark * * Mark's first option * * Mark's other option In your story loop in your game, you then look for the tags "npc", get the name, and then relay the choices to your AI NPC agent. But here, I have nothing but text to convey, and it would take a lot of logic power to process this text. So I'd add some tags in there to indicate what these choices would do. # npc Bob * * blah blah # aggressive * * blah bluh # friendly you can go with a word-based list of "emotions" like aggressive or sarcastic, or go the numeric route and have a number-based code for your options. It's up to how you want your AI to work. Then you have the story loop make the choice with the regular API. That's if you want an AI. What you could also do is have variables for each NPC keeping their "personality stats", and have your NPC decisions be computed with if statements like if mark_sarcastic is over 9000 then -> sass_answer (not ink syntax) The downside to this is, it's way harder to test and fine-tune your NPC's behavior. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#36 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AA40owKSHZOfU4DmpS1EL6AmcEwfVnroks5sVgi5gaJpZM4Ouu10> .