Dreamhack Stockholm 2024

It was a lot of fun to showcase the first level of the game at DreamHack Stockholm 2024 . In addition, it was a great honor to be able to stand side by side with established companies in the gaming industry.

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My Contributions

The dialogue system provides an interactive narrative experience, giving characters distinct voices and personalities through timed dialogue segments. This system, initially drafted by my project partners Lukas Åkerlind & Petri Valentin, was expanded and refined by me to enhance its functionality and make it adaptable for different characters and dialogue pacing.

Dialogue System

• DialogueSystem (With help from Lukas Åkerlind and later expanded and refined by me)

  With the help of Lukas’s initial draft, I extended and refined this script to add depth, control, and flexibility to the dialogue experience. The enhancements included:

  • Speaker and Segment Management:

    • The Speaker enum differentiates between various speakers (e.g., Player, NPC, Rat), allowing the system to display corresponding dialogue images for each character. I added ActivateSpeakerImage() to handle these dynamic visual cues, helping players identify who is speaking.

  • Timed Display with Coroutine:

    • Each dialogue segment displays for a specified duration, controlled by the PlayNextSegment() method. I used a coroutine, SegmentDuration(), to manage these timed transitions. Once a segment’s duration expires, the next segment is displayed, creating a smooth, timed flow through each conversation.

  • Dialogue State Tracking:

    • I added tracking for dialogueStarted and dialogueFinished to manage the start and end of conversations seamlessly. This allows the dialogue to be reset, paused, or completed as needed.

• Enhanced Usability and Interaction

  • The script’s visual integration—showing the corresponding character’s image—adds immersion, making the dialogue experience more engaging and visually informative.

• DialogueScriptableObject (by Petri Valentin)

  • This scriptable object provides a structure to define conversations as lists of Segment objects, where each Segment includes a Speaker, content (text), and duration (display time).

  • Petri's design allowed for flexible dialogue configuration outside the main script, simplifying the process of creating new conversations without altering the core dialogue code.

This taught me how to build upon a collaborative foundation to enhance functionality, create modular dialogue systems, and integrate timed sequences with visual feedback. Lukas’s initial draft served as an invaluable blueprint, providing the foundational structure upon which I could expand to deliver a more polished and interactive dialogue experience in What Comes Next.

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