Comic Dialogue Maker for Godot

In order to tell some stories inside of my 21 life values game, I needed a simple way to create a comic dialogue. My solution is simple, but it serves my purpose.

I am contributing my code to the community of creators for free! You may use it as you like (MIT license). Download it on GitHub.

How to play a comic dialogue in your Godot project?

1. Use a text file as your dialogue script.
2. Add your own graphics.

Godot looks for a textfile with such content:

[“background-image”, “character1-image”, “character2-image”, “12”, “text1”, “text2”],

The smaller speech bubbles are scaled automatically according to the amount of text.
The big bubble (for a longer text) stays in the same size.

Example

How to use it

You can exchange or add any graphics in the IMAGES folder:

• characters (use PNG files only: 500 x 500 pixel)
• backgrounds (use JPG files only: 962 x 539 pixel)
• button in three stages (PNG)
• arrow for the button (PNG)
• progress bar (PNG)
• bubbles (PNG)

Speech Bubbles

The standard bubble is bubble-0.png. It is made for character 1 (left side), and the script automatically flips it for character 2 (right side).

If you want one of the characters to speak a lot of words, the “big” bubble is called bubble-b.png. In the text file that controls the comic, write “%b” before you begin your text. Example: “%bThis is my long text”

In this way, you could also create many more bubbles: Just call them bubble-1.png or bubble-x.png (use one character after the hyphen). In your text file you can then tell the script to use them in the same way: “%1This is bubble 1” or “%xThis is bubble x”.

And those numbers…?

In the text file, there is one section with a two digit number. This is what it does:

• 12 = character 1 speaks first, then character 2
• 21 = character 2 speaks first, then character 1
• 10 = only character 1 speaks
• 20 = only character 2 speaks
• 00 = no one speaks

Notes

• “Speed” value in the text file: You can change this value. It is used as a pause in between the appearance of the speech bubbles, text and buttons to continue or go back.
• Resolution: The project is set up for 320 x 180. Please beware, if you decide to change this, or if you change the font (or size), all scaling and position values need to be changed in the script.
• Errors: If you get an error, it is very likely that you misplaced or missed a quotation or comma in the text file. The script doesn´t check for correct writing, so be careful when you create your text.
• License: You can use the script and the graphics in any way you want, also commercially, without attribution.
  Of course, I would be happy to see if the script was useful for you and I am curious in what projects you are implementing it.