I Made an Advanced JSON Dialog System in Godot

Since our last video, we've hit 1,000 subscribers (including own other youtube accounts 😄)! Thank you and am absolutely humbled by your support. I have been sitting on this video for a month, and hitting this milestone pushed me to finally continue to work on it.
I'm also gradually pivoting the branding/thumbnails of my videos. If you have thoughts, let me know what you think.
I hope this video provides some inspiration for your own dialog system. :) And as always, let's chat in Discord!
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🕰️ TIME STAMPS
00:19 The old dialog system
00:44 Localisation in godot
02:44 Runthrough
12:32 Tips
🍩 ABOUT SECRET LIFE OF DORIAN PINK
A choices-matter narrative RPG set in an alternate universe of the Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Save your boyfriend Basil from the Devil by making questionable choices, gaining allies, and making doughnuts explode.

[@AmberLimShin]

EDIT: Now available as a github project at github.com/Amberlim/GodotDialogSystem
I’m planning on releasing this dialog to json as an open source plugin. i didn’t want to release plugins in the past because answering code questions and debugging and revisiting old projects are not dream tasks to do, and that comes with maintaining a plugin, keeping it up to date and such. The way my tutorials are set up, it’s all more big-picture-sque. I try to encourage people to be creative. There is no right answer with creating game systems, and it’s very much about what kind of systems your specific game needs, and most of the fun, methinks, is in figuring the best way out of many ways to do something.
But this current dialog editor is pretty multipurpose and straightforward that i think it’s worth releasing it to anyone who might find it helpful. It doesn’t generate or design dialog boxes for you. All it does is generate a JSON file-your massive dictionary of dialog-that you can use in any way you like in your own game.
If you can work with JSON, you already have a pretty good idea of how dialog systems work. If you didn’t, I hope that my dialog videos has helped you more or less get a grasp of how to use it. It allows for a lot of customisation visually and also code-wise in your own game.
Let me know if you would my dialog editor to be released as an open source project on GitHub in the comments here.

[@TheBeginningOfMusic]

I'd love to see it released!
In fact, I checked the description to see if there is a Github link to the project because I'd really like to take a look at the code. And then I checked the comments.
Although I understand the overall structure it's always interesting for me to take a look at someone else's code to maybe take away inspiration to my own style of coding.
(I'm gonna be honest, I wanna see how this sexy window popup is done at 5:28) 😂
Kidding aside, in my opinion you're not owing anyone any support to debug or explain your code by releasing it on Github.
And who knows, maybe a pull request from someone will squash some annoying bugs that have been pestering you this whole time.
In any case, congratulations on your amazing work and amazing video.

[@AmberLimShin]

You too

[@AmberLimShin]

Thanks and good points @TheBeginningOfMusic. I now consider it my priority to fulfill your lofty ambition to learn how to do the sexy window popup at 5:28, so I will put my project on github next week.

[@reynold99991]

@@AmberLimShin If you release it by Wednesday or this Monday people might be able to use it in this Weeks Godot gam jam 😅

[@AmberLimShin]

Done @reynold99991

[@ronangadion6984]

I hope this would be a public plugin soon, it looks really simple to use and I can't wait to try it.

[@AmberLimShin]

Hi NONE, I will put it up on github by next week. ;)

[@croco_nsfw]

This looks so polished and cute! Making complex systems is really satisfying. Nice one!

[@AmberLimShin]

Thanks!

[@NicolasEmbleton]

Wow. Just discovered this. Amazing work 😮.

[@stevendevonport737]

First time visitor and I really liked your presentation plus the Dialog system looks really neat. Oh and you have a new subscriber!

[@AmberLimShin]

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Many thanks for ze commendations.

[@Hanree]

i like the simple comedy in your videos.

[@Hanree]

Great, so informative and simple. Straight to the point!

[@BioxyTube]

haha you laughing is so adorable ! thanks for the tips, i've been thinking about how to handle my dialogs in my prototype and your teachings are very helpful

[@AmberLimShin]

Glad it was useful for you. :) Good luck on your prototype.

[@Strelarck]

This is more than I was looking for, it's informative enough to grasp the key info, it's easy to follow, it's fun to watch.
Great content, great video, keep it up! I just started using Godot and thanks to you I'm in the right direction!

[@AmberLimShin]

Thanks. Hope it's all going good so far ;)

[@geisha88]

Восхитительный и потрясающий туториал, ради такого я готов реально улучшить свой английский чтобы смотреть подобные видео, очень доступно и понятно, спасибо спасибо спасииииииииииибо!!!!!!

[@AmberLimShin]

тебе тоже спасибо!!!!

[@coegho]

I like your videos a lot, they are clear and very easy to follow! TH-cam recommended this channel and, as a beginner with Godot, I think it's pretty cool.
Btw not really related to the content of the video, but your voice is strangely relaxing

[@AmberLimShin]

I really appreciate it. Thanks and good luck :)

[@randcoding]

exited to see this👀

[@AmberLimShin]

:D

[@TheRevanpl]

what a banger of a channel, thank you

[@AmberLimShin]

Thank you for watching :)

[@aj_seegle5914]

My word I have been waiting months for someone to even address the concept of voiced dialogue in Godot, you're giving me so much hope rn, thank you

[@AmberLimShin]

Glad to help. Good luck!

[@MohamedSayedAbdElRaheem]

i really loved

[@Krbydav328]

I've been writing in Godot my first 3D game in an ECS framework and watching GDC talks from Firewatch and Aarthificial have helped a bit (the event only polling to other dialogue nodes based on rules and facts has been difficult to understand mentally and I needed to see how you thought through your dialogue editor in Godot!)

[@AmberLimShin]

hope it helped :)!

[@question_mark]

very cool

[@colly9888]

This reminds me a lot about DavetheDevs Godot 3 Dialog System! I already wrote half my script, but I wish I found this sooner..

[@AmberLimShin]

Aw, but good luck!

[@AkiNeki]

Oh, i was trying make something like this at last summer, and did it, but much primitive(...
I like your system, it looks awesome

[@AmberLimShin]

Nice! And thank you.

[@universaltiger4229]

Looks great!
Any plans on updating it for 4.2?

[@AmberLimShin]

working on it but been procrastinating because of studies

[@patlecat]

@AmberLimShin You could use the XLIFF files for translations

[@nyeeesss2424]

Awesome! You should check out Nagi's addon. He did something similar.

[@AmberLimShin]

Thanks! I follow Nagi too :D

[@rcjbvermilion]

Impressive system!
I've always wanted to make a Deus Ex style dialog system, and wondered how they got it to execute scripts when running certain parts of the dialogue tree.
One other thought I had - I wonder if there would be any benefit to assigning each node a GUID/UUID. It would allow referencing arbitrary nodes, but at the risk that a node gets deleted but references to it don't. I also wonder how it could scale to handle thousands of lines of dialogue. Now you've got me thinking...

[@AmberLimShin]

🤔 🧠

[@DrNabeel20]

:D !!

[@educherrypatty9436]

I just used Dialogic for my project, kekw.

[@AmberLimShin]

Wise.

[@depressomocha]

Damn, I just finished my dialogue system too. Not as fancy, though

[@AmberLimShin]

As long as it works! ;)

[@teo2805]

Will it be a public plugin?

[@AmberLimShin]

I'm considering it.

[@Pakrohk]

Why didn't you use dialog which the official team suggested?

[@AmberLimShin]

:/ Which official dialog do you mean?