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Old 07-09-2009, 02:20 PM   #7
Paul Stevens
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Join Date: July 8, 2003
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Age: 85
Posts: 296
Default Re: Conversation Demonstration

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dinonykos
that the NPCs you talk to should have more to say
Quite! And as the first person you meet says,
"Limited only by size of swapfile". Or your
imagination. The NPCs can give you all sorts
of useless information. A clever writer could slip
the 'keywords' into a conversation rather
unobtrusively. I contain some cleverness myself,
but it is of a rather different (and perhaps
useless) kind.

This capability and demo were built without any
input from designers. It is flexible and new
features can be added as needed. Some
built-in pattern-matching capability might be
nice, for example. Like finding two words or
multiple words in arbitrary order. The regular
expressions for such things are yukky.
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