Narrative Campaign General Discussion?

[ShadowOfHassen]

8 hours ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

2-Having historical figures in the form of portraits will certainly give it depth.

I was wondering how we'd do dialogue. We don't exactly have voice actors so the Age fo Empires narrative strategy of cutscene + dialog in game might not work.

[Lion.Kanzen]

1 minute ago, ShadowOfHassen said:

I was wondering how we'd do dialogue. We don't exactly have voice actors so the Age fo Empires narrative strategy of cutscene + dialog in game might not work.

For now only text.

[ShadowOfHassen]

1 minute ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

For now only text.

Something like that with the text would work, though it might be smart to do something like how Wesnoth has a press space to continue for the dialogue, for slower readers.

[Lion.Kanzen]

2 minutes ago, ShadowOfHassen said:

Something like that with the text would work, though it might be smart to do something like how Wesnoth has a press space to continue for the dialogue, for slower readers.

As if it were an RPG.

[ShadowOfHassen]

12 minutes ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

As if it were an RPG.

Yeah, at least for the moment... It would take some coding, but it'd be the best thing we can do currently...

[Vantha]

Do we really need dialogue to tell the story?

Certainly a hot take, but I find cutscenes (especially with voiceovers) in RTS's very awkward. Why would Carthaginian generals talk in English? And with the moments of silence in between shouted lines, speeches sound very unnatural and feel everything else but "real". If anything, it takes away from the immersion for me.

But I have a strong suspicion I may be the only one here who thinks this way

[Lion.Kanzen]

32 minutes ago, Vantha said:

Carthaginian generals talk in English?

Like movies, they have an audience. The audience is the one who listens, they call it the communication process, if you interrupt them the message is not delivered.

Sí yo te escribo este mensaje en español, no lo vas entender especialmente si no usas un traductor.

Quiere decir que no  lo estás decodificando.

Edited 12 minutes ago by Lion.Kanzen