Monday, February 06, 2006

I'l be there in 2 ticks... (or 7200 really)

Now that the ELIZA style conversation is almost completely coded, I need to look at ways to go from the fluid, JavaScript keyword recognition, to a linear conversation that Ruari has composed.

To do so I'm looking at starting a timer once the User is "conversing" with Snivitz, and after 2 minutes (7200 ticks) move the experience along to a staged version which has the exact look and feel of the previous version, but has carefully written dialogue to seague into the dream sequence.

Information on coding time-based interfaces can be found here:

http://webzone.k3.mah.se/k3jolo/Lingo/lingo5.htm