Tools for dialogue crafting

Bimbam

Hi all,

Just wondering what tools or systems others have used to draft their dialogue in dialogue-heavy games.

I know about the various plugins in the asset store and these are great for implementing dialogue within Godot, but I find not so great for actually drafting or 'managing' said dialogue.

I guess what I am hoping is someone could point me in the direction of a tool or system that lets me easily draft potentially branching dialogue for multiple characters/conditions (and is able to easily track/visualise these branches/conditions while I draft) before I go through the process of putting it into code. Ideally, if such a tool exists it would be able to output in JSON or equivalent and then I just have to hook it into GDScript, but even if it doesn't I would find this infinitely more manageable than trying to craft a story in nodes.

Thanks!

Megalomaniak

I've seen Twine mentioned before but I've never used it myself so not sure if it fits your criteria. https://twinery.org/

edit: and a couple of godot plugins a I quickly googled for it: https://github.com/lemilonkh/twinestory (listed as godot 2.2+) https://github.com/iamtoaster/twison-godot (claims to be tested with godot 3.1)

Bimbam

Ahh looks interesting! will give it a crack and see how I fare, thanks!

Bimbam

Ok, I've had a look and while it does seem nice, the apparent lack of any kind of spellchecker is a bit of a deal-breaker for me. Maybe there is an addon or something? but it was not obvious :S

Megalomaniak

from a topic on their forum:

Unfortunately the CodeMirror text editor (which is used instead of a standard Text Field because it supports features like syntax highlighting) in the Passage Editor is not considered an editable control by web-browsers and this means that the web-browser's built-in spell checker does not work (without hacks). This is a known CodeMirror issue.