Functional Walking, Talking NPC's (Enemy Editor)

[Lotus_Eater]

Hmm, might it be possible to program NPC's as enemies? Simply have them walk around, be invincible to attacks. And have it so when they "attack" you it triggers a message string? Another possibility is instead of taking damage from your attacks they trigger a message string to appear?

Basically the main variables to edit would be their immunity or unusual susceptibility to attack, and how there attack functions.

Just some food for thought.

Later,
Lotus

[Imprisoned]

I think that would be too complicated, that would need scripting, etc.

But you can always make animated combos, like the 2 boys throwing ball in LA. The ball moved from tile to tile. You could make the NPC walk between 2 unwalkable tiles, which would be surrounded by direct warps. And so on, using the close-talk-npc technique.

[Lotus_Eater]

Ok, I was thinking so you would not need scripting. Also I know all about the older ways of doing it, I was refering to something totally new.