Contacts / Discussion

This is the discussion related to the wiki page Contacts.

Contacts formatting

dfmchfhf 02 Sep 2009 02:12

I'm currently working on reformatting the contacts pages to a consistent format, as well as adding the conversation content to their pages as well.

So far, the formatting is:

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Contact

[image]
Full name

Conversation

Greeting (^progress)

Greeting

progress	Initial question	Conversation name	New choices
progress	Second question	nothing	End of conversation

^progress Conditions indication progress [1=>2=>3=>4=>5=>…]

Conversation name

Conversation content

Effects

[effects]

Notes

[notes]

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Suggestions, comments, help? :o)

Vholes 08 Sep 2009 11:23

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It takes up a lot of space, which would probably be better used to give people a rough summary of what was said. However, I agree that the wiki should contain this information, and preferably keep it on the contact page.

Certain conversations can be expressed very simply as tables; I'm thinking of Professor Evans here. Because they're contacts, talking to them is free, so it's hardly important which conversation topic links to which (unlike with the Hammer… I don't remember the name of the page we keep his conversation on).

Others are more complex, obviously. I'll try to think on how to display the information more intuitively, but it's tough.

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In the beginning, men were mortal.

Last edited on 07 Nov 2011 05:50 by Vholes Show more

Vholes 07 Nov 2011 05:49

The perennial problem of contact pages…

Check out Sandbox for an alternative version of Happy Dragon. Using anchors instead of tables lets us link to different places in the dialogue, titled according to what options lead there. Hopefully this is easier to both navigate and edit.

What do you think?

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In the beginning, men were mortal.

bigalphillips 07 Nov 2011 18:59

That mockup looks a lot easier to edit, and pretty straight forward to use. I'll have to give it a try with a more complicated page, but that looks better than anything I could come up with.