Making Dialogue Boxes With Character Portraits

A quick example of how to make a dialogue box system where characters animate in and out of the screen in a dynamic way. This free project is fully-commented to help you understand the code and learn to implement a similar system in your own game.

Features

• Learn how to create a queue of messages, processed one-by-one in game.
• Messages animate with a typewriter effect, and automatically start new lines in a pleasing way (unlike using draw_text_ext alone).
• Full character portraits which slide & fade onto the screen when they talk.
• Characters have a breathing animation & fade into the background when they’re not talking.
• As used in our game Love Witch Heroines.

License

You may use this template for ANY and ALL uses including commercial use, with or without giving credit, except that you may not sell or redistribute the unaltered assets as your own game assets.