HTH Dialog Developers Group

Cool. Well, I'm Agent9, I appeared on the you-know-where yammering about how I'm a hack writer, and can probably do this on my spare time. Like I said before, I'm not that great, I'm not even that special. The worst that happens is my dialog is trash and it ends up being scrapped. That said, I'm mostly a **** writer, and no, you can't see it because it would reveal my standing in the fandom.
So I'm on a wild ride here. I hope I can enjoy this, and I'm not sure who to take, or even what the rules are. I think I saw something about rules earlier. Well, I'll make myself at home here, because why not?

I am not in the least bit experienced with XML but I'm willing to learn.

 

I'm glad that you are both willing to do dialogs.
If you don't understand anything, just ask. I'll try my best to explain anything.
If you want to do something but not sure how, just post you idea on the board, I'll show you how to do that.

That XML is just text based form of nested object tree, so don't loose too much time with that.
Dialog is divided into set of states, each consists of what character says to you (in one turn) with set of player responses for that. Each response is what player says to the character with action what that response is supposed to do: Move dialog to another character state, and/or to start a sex scene, or go to different place/zone. So each state is character speech turn, player's turn is the responses.

I am only capable of writing dialog, but I am more than willing to do so.

Rather than claiming a character, I'd rather that you assign to me characters you intend on working on.

I used a disposable e-mail for this registration, along with the random number/letter name, so this forum will be the only real way to get in touch.

That said, once you tell me what dialog you want written (Please provide the clearest instructions you can) I'll try to get going on it.

I suggest you start a thread with the character's name, instructions on what kind of sex they will be offering (if I understand it, you want to have to "earn" the sex the more wild it is) and I'll take a swing at it.

Do we have a thread devoted to Bug reporting?

That way we can compile a list of things that need to be fixed...

Welcome onboard. You can start with Jade for example. She has just to scenes (69 and missionary). You can continue with more complex characters next.

Jade it is. I'll post it in the right spot when I have time.

I posted the talk tree for Jade.

I kept it VERY simple. Pretty much no branching, just a success state, a fail state, and a quit state. You may also notice that the forum censors my swears, but I think you can fill in the blanks easy enough.

I'm really of a mind that these conversations should be very short and to the point. People aren't here to romance a character for hours and then finally seduce them, they wanna get to the humping but feel like they were "good guy" enough to "earn" it. Plus, let's face it, these characters are supposed to put out much more easily than real people, so I don't want to put in lots of extra work just to disappoint players. Plus we've got, like 50 characters here. So some economizing is necessary. Keep It Simple, Stupid.

If this meets with approval, tell me who to do next, and what scenes they will need to be agreeing to.

Sidebar - if there's any room for requests, I'd like Chrissy from RLD to appear so I can write dialog for her, because she's my favorite among Crow's creations. Back when he and I were friends he promised me a lot with her, but of course he forgot about it all, and me. So I wanna try and make some of my own here. I'm willing to have that go last.