Dialogue tree writing tools

[Wysardry]

I haven't tried it yet, but I recently found a program called Chat Mapper that might help.

You might also want to take a look at Treepad, which is a less specialised tree structured text editor.

 

[Davaris]

I haven't tried it yet, but I recently found a program called Chat Mapper that might help.

That looks really good. As I said it would be great to have a program you can work with, who's output you can use in any engine you want and this one seems to fit the bill.

 

[Severian Silk]

Instead of branching trees, you might think more in terms of a programming stack. Quest nodes are referenced by an identifier, and get added or removed from the top of the stack - thereby eliminating the need for branching or indentation in the source files.

Otherwise, Excel and a custom macro in VB might be a good solution.

 

[shihonage]

Instead of branching trees, you might think more in terms of a programming stack. Quest nodes are referenced by an identifier, and get added or removed from the top of the stack - thereby eliminating the need for branching or indentation in the source files.

Yar, that's how I built my dialogue editor.