Week 4
Real dialogue
Part of The Hero's Village.
Bring conversations to life. By the end, the game holds real conversations: dialogue that advances line by line, with different characters saying different things.
Being finalized. This course is being finalized and polished before it opens on Outschool in August 2026. The outline below is the plan for what your learner will build, and a few details may still change as I add the finishing touches.
Coming soon
Opens August 2026
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What this class covers
- Lines of dialogue
- Each character gets a set of lines, so they can say more than one thing.
- Advancing the conversation
- Pressing a key moves to the next line, so the conversation plays out at the reader's pace.
- Everyone has something to say
- Different characters carry different dialogue, so the village feels populated and worth exploring.
Optional Customizations
Just-for-fun customizations to try on your own between classes. Never needed to keep up.
- Write a longer conversation for a character.
- Add a 'press Z to continue' prompt.
- Give a character a name.