Topic 1: How to Let AI Output Key Messages and Items In Game
here are some suggestions from us and we believe you can take a try in the edit page to let AI listen to the command.
Some creators want the AI to listen to their fixed rules setup in their design. AI is not a perfect technology for logical follow (I would say rule based is much better on this), but here we want to talk about some tricks on these:
Let AI output key messages when the player have completed something.
This can be done by directly using natural language to tell the AI in Lores (see more detail about Lores in this section Topic 2: Write Powerful Lores)
Step 1. Let AI know when these messages should be trigger
Write reasonable and appropriate logics in the worldview.
Describe in natural language instead of code logic such as if...then... condition
When the player request for a key, you shall mention that: XXXX
When the player learnt that the culprit is XXX, you shall mention that:
Count your turn of response, and when you conduct the magic spell in the third round, YOU MUST EXACTLY OUTPUT THIS: XXXXXX
Step 2. Design All Messages
Design the series of messages you want to be responded to the player by the NPC, and fill it in spaces in the above sentence. You might incorporate them into brackets like this: [XXXXX]
Sometimes explicit and exact content are designed to trigger the PASS or FAIL in the game, otherwise its used to trigger an action. Move to the next section and see what this means.
Let AI give items to the player when the player have completed something.
You need to write 4 part of contents:
What does the NPC have & what does the NPC know
there might be some cases that your player will get off the topic, and to make sure you want the NPC react to the items that exactly designed by you in the game,
How it can be triggered
How it can be used once triggered
How to improve the output content (just tell AI what mistakes it makes and try to avoid)
Step 1. Let AI know why it needs to know these items, and what cases can be triggered / acknowledged
Step 2. Design all items and results in a Table or like a Dictionary
Design the series of items that NPC knows (which are those you want the NPC to use or give to the Player). Here are some examples:
Note Book: this is the James' diary, listing all the schedule of Mary since he became the butler of this manor.
Red Box: the box that is locked. The player need to find a key to open the box. Let the player know how the box looks like by describing it in your own way.
Award with 100 coins in a bag
Step 3. Let AI output in a solid logic that can trigger a code / action
Step 4. Add something that might help to form the result
TIPS: Advanced, triggering a system / action / flag
This is more like writing a code logic because you need a consistent output:
If you are giving an item or something to the player, you shall:
Emphasize the format and content that consistent with the other code you are about to trigger
List some examples
Include the condition of when to output the content in the exact format
last but not least... If it fails to do anything, you shall add additional content at the end of your input.
Example of a content in Lore
TIPS: Limited the count of Items if you only what it to use once.
Let the NPC, who has the item, or anyone who you want it to know the existence of the item, knows that the total number of items are limited by telling the AI with detailed numerical values.
For example:
If you want to limit the total of non-consumable items, tell AI this.
There are only 3 keys in the dungeon. You are the only one holding the blue key. You don't know who is holder the other two keys.
If you only want the item be used / be consumed once, tell AI this:
There is only one prize, and once it is given, you need to count down -1. You shall not give it to another person.
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