Feature request: Export quests

[MrDienns]

Happy new year!

It seems that GoNorth has a set of export features, combined with a scripting language, which can allow anyone to create a smoother end-to-end integration from design into actual game implementation. This is very awesome. What we did notice is that quests are currently excluded from this, as we do not see the same functionality being available there.

We would like the export & scripting capabilities to be extended into quests, so that we can create our own export script and optimize our design to implementation flow. Is there any possibility in getting this added?

[steffendx]

Thanks! Happy new year!

You are right. Quests are currently only supported to be exported in JSON format since this is quite a bit of work and I am not sure yet how to export the text nodes for example. Since the idea behind these was to describe what is going on in the quest.

Are you mainly looking to export the action and conditions nodes of the quests to script? That might be possible to implement. But I dont yet have a fixed timeline for the next release so it might take a bit of time until I am able to get this ready.

[MrDienns]

Basically, quests are defined as a series of JSON files in our engine, each specifying the objective message and rule engine triggers. What we'd love to achieve is that we can tweak GoNorth into exporting straight into these JSON files. If we have a custom exporter which supports Kotlin (our preference), such as with the other features, we can likely get quite far already. We'll have to see if we can implement this export from start to finish, or we have GoNorth only roll out a skeleton and have manual work to do the final touches.

[steffendx]

Alright. Thanks for the insight. I will include support for this export feature in the next release.