#1 - Let's talk! (a dialogue system)

Hey there!

Since AZBH is mainly an RPG, character interactions take a huge part in unveiling the story of the game. Since the most basic form of communication between the characters is talking - a dialogue system seems to be a must.

I will go a little bit in-depth into the dialogue system I have prototyped for AZBH. Before I started coding the system and getting the UI art ready, I thought about a few things that I want to focus on:

1. I want the player to fully focus on the dialogue.
2. I want to 'personalize' how the messages look depending on the characters (kinda undertale-ish).
3. I want the player to be able to choose what to say to the NPCs.
4. Since the player controls 4 characters, he needs to know what character is talking.

ad.1 - I made the 'battle-adventure' GUI fade out when you enter a dialogue and added black bars at the top and bottom of the screen to get player's attention

ad.2 - Different characters can have different fonts and font colors.

ad.3 - Dialogue options box below the message box. Works like a charm, 10 minutes of work.

ad.4 - The currently talking character's portrait and name is displayed on the message box (possible face animations later?)

Here's how it looks so far (forgot to disable mouse-on-events, so there's a sword description for like half a second under the dialogue box lol):

So here's the boring part aka how does it work:

Confusing? I guess. I know my code is not too optimized, but I can read it and it works.

Any thoughts? Leave me a comment!

Thank you for reading!
onyon