SimDialog: A visual game dialog editor

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SimDialog is a visual editor for dialog in computer games.

• This paper presents the design of SimDialog, illustrating how script writers and non-programmers can easily create dialog for video games with complex branching structures and dynamic response characteristics.
• The system creates dialog as a directed graph.
• This allows for play using the dialog with a state-based cause and effect system that controls selection of non-player character responses and can provide a basic scoring mechanism for games.