Preview Riftrunner Peeked at for Fifth Consecutive Week at RPGVault

[Spazmo]

Tags: Beyond Divinity; Larian Studios

<A HREF="http://rpgvault.ign.com" target="_blank">RPG Vault</a> have yet again <a href=http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/437/437790p1.html>put up an article</a> about the upcoming <a href=http://www.larian.com/riftrunner/>Riftrunner</a>. This one provides insight into Riftrunner's scripting system.
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<blockquote>/* When the hero enters the prison guard region, the game is requested to start a scene. The region is created in the game's editor, for example a room. Before starting the actual scene, we first need to let the game know we want to run a scene, so for example, the interface can be disabled. */
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IF NpcEntersRegion(NPC_Hero,REGION_Prison_Guard)
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THEN RequestScene(SCENE_Prison_Guard);
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/* The SceneStarted() event is thrown by the game after RequestScene() has been called. It informs Osiris the game allows it to start a scene. After the scene has started, we initiate a camera movement towards the NPC in question. */
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IF SceneStarted(SCENE_Prison_Guard)
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THEN CameraToNpc(NPC_Prison_Guard,"Prison Guard");</blockquote>
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So apparently, Belgians code in English. Oh, and look out for our Riftrunner dev chat <b>Tuesday at 8 PM in #rpgcodex on irc.gamesnet.net</b>
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[EEVIAC]

I like the premise of Riftrunner, its kind of like an RPG "buddy movie."

In Riftrunner, you become soul-forged with a Death Knight. Your fate is to spend the rest of eternity bonded to this creature of evil, unless you can undo this curse. You and your unlikely companion embark on a great adventure to unlock the secret of riftrunning... your only answer to this life of darkness!

 

[snoek]

we, wacky belgians, know english better than our own neat language
that's just odd.

 

[Spazmo]

I bet the death knight is really sassy, too.

 

[Crazy Tuvok]

I hope they tone down on the combat a bit tho. What killed Div Div for me, and what finally caused me to quit playing, was the overabundance of combat. For everything I liked about the game there was just too much fighting, fighting, fighting. Which is a shame as the game did have a lot of neat stuff in it.

 

[EEVIAC]

I bet the death knight is really sassy, too.

One of them has to be, its part of the straight man/funny man dynamic that the buddy movies work (or not) upon. Considering the amount of smart-arse dialogue options in DivDiv (such as offering to fetch Theyleron a healer after you've resurected him from the dead and he cries out in pain,) there's no reason why the death knight couldn't play it totally straight.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Strangely enough i also know English better than my main language. Worse than that is that i feel more comfortable talking and writing in English than in my main language. So its not a Belgian programmer specific thing :wink:

 

[Araanor]

I prefer programming in English. It feels... more proper. Fits better since the words of the languages are in English.