Rodent Warriors - Quests and Dialogues

Hello everyone!

We recently released version 9 and Rodent Warriors keeps getting better and better.

After working a bit on the new Dialogues as we mentioned in our last post, it became more and more clear that the current Quest system in Rodent Warriors doesn't add any fun to the game. We kind of already knew this but at the time didn't have any better ideas and time to develop more ideas.

However after some thinking we have decided to make the following changes, in order to make Quests fun again!

New quest system

• Hero always born in a random location
  • i.e. Initial location on the map chosen at random 
• Player chooses from 4 quest locations
  • No more level requirements for possible quest locations
  • From 4 unique closest in each direction to current location, N S E W
• All quests are either for Army rank or Vice
  • Doesn't matter what location you choose 
  • If vice available that is the quest that happens otherwise is army
  • Vice quests available right away
• When you select an area the UI will show
  • Name of area
  • Time of day
  • Rodent King quote
• Once the player selects the area they want to play in, the dialogue starts
• Story overlay on combat scene no longer contains quest text
  • Figure out something better to put in that window 
• Put NPCs in maze to further quests
  • In dead ends without treasure chests
  • Interact with them for more quest dialogues

Faces

• Construct a face of parts
  • Head
  • Eyes
  • Nose
  • Mouth
  • Ears
  • Fur
  • Etc
• Display face
• Faces for NPCs in the story are created if they dont exist
• Faces change every time the hero reincarnates
• Wherever Rodent King face is shown use current Rodent King face as above
  • Legend story
  • Quest Quote
  • Tutorial
• Store NPC face details in save game

Dialogues 

• Involve hero and 1 ore more NPCs
• List of possible NPCs in the story
• Display text
• Branches
  • AI decides which branch to take
• Player Choices 
  • UI
  • Funny :)
  • If you pick certain choices you get bonus
    • Crafting materials
  • The choices to pick change randomly
• Translations
  • English 
• Write dialogues
• Dialogues used for quests change randomly

Please let us know what you think of these changes.  And as always keep watching as we make progress.

Thank you!

Kevin