Quest: Third Person?

Question

Heya all!

What would be the best way to tweak the Quest program to make an adventure in third person?

I'm trying to make a game where the point is you watch someone else do things, while you just tweak things - so the player will need to be third person.

Although, I still keep getting "You" Everywhere.

Any advice?

Comments

I'm not that familiar with the built-in stuff, I was hoping someone more knowledgeable would help you with this stuff, so sorry about the late response, but I'll give it a go (might not be of help to you, as I'm not sure of how to do this):

you could just give your 'player' Player Object a 'third person name' for their 'alias' String Attribute text box.

Or, there's the 'prefix' and~or 'suffix' String Attribute text boxes.

or, you'll need to change the 'article' and~or 'gender' String Attributes for your 'player' Player Object.

also, make sure you look at all the Tabs and their options for the 'game' Game Object too.

if you need help on how to do anything or how to use the Attributes below, let me know.

http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/attributes/gender.html
http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/attributes/article.html
http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/tutorial/interacting_with_objects.html

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I think I maybe found it, the 'you' is from the 'SelfGender' Template (lower left corner: filter -> show library elements: toggle it on -> up above on the left side in the 'tree of stuff' you can now see the built-in stuff as light grey text, so find the 'advanced' category and then within it the 'Template' category and then find the 'SelfGender' Template ~ unfortunately they're not in alphabetical order ~ it's not easy to find ~ it's near the bottom of the 'Template' category a bit above the 'compass' stuff, and then on the right side, upper right corner, click on 'copy' button, then change the 'you' to whatever you want for your third person name~word, and hopefully this works, lol)

Answer 1

Note: this answer applies if you're using the desktop version of Quest. I don't know of a way to modify the templates in the online version.

Switching to third person is doable but not trivial. The problem is that the word "you" is used extensively in the templates. Fortunately, all of those templates live in one file: if you're using the English language, then they're in the English.aslx file. On my machine, that file lives at C:\Program Files (x86)\Quest 5\Core\Languages\English.aslx.

I would not edit that file directly. Rather, I would copy it into your game folder and edit it there.

I have created an English.aslx with the pronoun changes. I don't see an easy way to attach files here, so I posted it back on the textadventures site. You should be able to grab it from there: Third-person English.aslx posting. Just copy it into your game folder, and Quest will use it instead of the Core one.

Answer 2

err, here is the answer (I found it's setttings location directly in the GUI~Editor, far easier then the mess I was getting into in the other answer post ~ now changed to a comment as well, and the comment of mine):

'player' Player Object -> 'Player' Tab -> Gender -> (change it from 'you' to whatever you want for the third person name~word)

and of course you can change the other settings here to, to as you like.