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Bug 17993 - Can an example for scripts of interactive works, like video games, be added? In those, dialogue is often triggered by pressing a button near them, and it's divided into chunks. Like person A may say X the first time, but if you query the person again (s)
Summary: Can an example for scripts of interactive works, like video games, be added? ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-18 07:30 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-10-15 04:36 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 07:30:45 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 14353 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2011-10-01 15:18:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2011-10-01 15:18:31 +0000 
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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/links.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#conversations
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#conversations

Comment:
Can an example for scripts of interactive works, like video games, be added?
In those,  dialogue is often triggered by pressing a button near them, and
it's divided into chunks. Like person A may say X the first time, but if you
query the person again (s)he will say Y. An example of what I'm talking marked
up with an interpretation of the deprecated dialog element can be found here:
http://www.pscave.com/pso/script/battletraining.shtml

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 #1   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2011-10-14 21:37:54 +0000 
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: I added an example of a conversation where the player has multiple options in what they say, which isn't quite the same thing, but should be similar enough. Let me know if you want an example more precisely like what you describe.
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 #2   contributor@whatwg.org                          2011-10-14 21:38:48 +0000 
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r6685.
Check-in comment: Add an example of the script of a conversation in interactive fiction.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6684&to=6685
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 #3   benoitren@benoitren.be                          2011-12-22 23:05:06 +0000 
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Hi there, I'm the contributor who submitted the bug report.

Thanks for the example. While it's not precisely what I asked, such situations do occur in the game script I linked. Still, if you can give me an example that's more precisely what I asked, it'd be appreciated, as I'm not that good at figuring these out for myself.
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 #4   benoitren@benoitren.be                          2012-06-19 22:10:10 +0000 
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Hi there, it's me again. Looks like it's been almost exactly 6 months since my last comment. I'm here to prod for an example more precisely like what I asked once more.
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 #5   Simon Pieters                                   2012-06-20 04:59:18 +0000 
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You need to reopen the bug if you want further action from the editor.
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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-07-27 02:08:26 UTC 
I'll see about adding another example. Seems like a bit of an esoteric case though. :-)
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-10-05 22:56:11 UTC 
I don't really understand the conversation markup style at the pscave.com URL above. Can you elaborate on it a bit? In particular, under "Pioneer 2 city", the first bit under "Zidd", there are two bullet points. What do they represent?
Comment 3 benoitren 2012-10-05 23:12:07 UTC 
Each bullet point represents the start of the character's dialogue with your character when you interact with them by pressing the A button. This is because many characters will say something different when you interact with them again.

In the instance you brought up, the dialogue is automatically started after you accept the quest Battle Training. After Zidd is done giving you the mission details, you can interact with him and he will say something different.
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-10-15 04:36:07 UTC 
Ok, done! Let me know if it's still insufficient (and reopen the bug if you do), thanks!
Comment 5 contributor 2012-10-15 04:36:15 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r7464.
Check-in comment: Another example for game conversations, by request.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7463&to=7464