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Ultima Ratio Regum 0.8 released! (Only took five years...)
Ultima Ratio Regum 5 commentsUltima Ratio Regum 0.8 released; NPCs, faces, clothing, speech, schedules, and a million other things.
Finishing 0.8 Part VIII
Ultima Ratio RegumThis week's URRpdate - starting work on sentence variables which change every time a speaker uses them!
Finishing 0.8 Part VII
Ultima Ratio RegumLots of progress this week on conversation detail, recommending other NPCs, new responses for strange topics, and more...
Finishing 0.8 Part VI
Ultima Ratio RegumJust a short update this week with some iterative improvements, fixes, and coding optimizing; a larger update next time!
Finishing 0.8 Part V
Ultima Ratio RegumLots of new responses for uninteresting, stupid and "suspicious" questions, bug-fixes, optimisations, etc. Read on!
Finishing 0.8 Part IV
Ultima Ratio RegumFinally some screenshots of the speech generation, with lots of progress on questions, answers, negative responses, bored responses, and more!
Finishing 0.8 Part III
Ultima Ratio Regum 2 commentsMore conversation progress on starting and ending sentences, refusing responses, NPC mood, sensitivity to questions, and more!
Finishing 0.8 Part II
Ultima Ratio Regum 2 commentsThis week's URRpdate with NPC moods, responses, refusal to answer, boosting the variety of spoken phrases, and more!
Finishing 0.8 Part I
Ultima Ratio Regum 2 commentsFirst URRpdate in months, and it's a big one - major progress on conversations, and it feels amazing to be back to programming.
Burnout and the Future of URR Development
Ultima Ratio Regum 10 commentsWhy there hasn't been any URR development in the last few months.
Where are you from?
Ultima Ratio Regum 1 commentThinking about NPCs respond to the player's clothing, style of speech, facial features, jewellery, etc...
Conversations, Relations, and Alcohol
Ultima Ratio RegumMajor URRpdate on conversations, international relations, animals, speech, relics, responses, oh, and PCG alcohol.
Paper, Laws, Political Parties, List Questions
Ultima Ratio Regum 2 commentsAn academic paper on roguelikes, new laws, names for political parties, and new questions and responses!
Basic Conversations, Relics, Traits, Laws
Ultima Ratio Regum 2 commentsAnother big update on URR's procedurally-generated conversation and speech system!
Greetings, farewells, insults, threats, compliments, thanks
Ultima Ratio Regum 4 commentsWinter holiday update: procedural greeting / farewell / compliment / insult / threat / thanks generator with millions of permutations!
More development of conversation content
Ultima Ratio RegumAs URR 0.8 development finally resumes to push towards release, lots of more content is added to the PCG speech system.
Ultima Ratio Regum 0.8 development resumes!
Ultima Ratio Regum 2 commentsAfter a several month hiatus, Ultima Ratio Regum v0.8 development resumes, for final 10% of the first gameplay release!
Introducing Replies and Counter Questions
Ultima Ratio Regum 4 commentsNPCs asking the player questions, the player's ability to offer replies, and why things have been a little quiet lately.
Defaults Finished, Negative Replies, Simulated Boredom
Ultima Ratio RegumAnother big URRpdate as the conversation system progresses, all default question generation is finished, and negative replies come into play!
Default Conversation Options, Expansions, Scrolling, Personalities
Ultima Ratio RegumA major URRpdate on sentence and dialect generation with lots of new information, technical specifics, navigation and user interface, and more!
More Natural/Human Conversations
Ultima Ratio Regum 2 commentsA big change to the style of conversations and dialects to make them more natural, more human, and more believable!
More Procedural Sentence Generation
Ultima Ratio Regum 2 commentsAnother update on procedural sentence generation, creating distinctive in-game dialects, and how conversations work.
Seeing Names, Changing Dialect, Sentence Generation
Ultima Ratio RegumHuge URRpdate on the dialect system, conversation system, sentence generation, with technical detail, design intentions, and more!
Name Implementation, Animals, Plants, Sentence Generation, and Bug Hunt
Ultima Ratio RegumDo you like black-and-white text-dump images? I hope so, since this entry is full of them!
Conversation Options, Scrolling, Changing Dialect, Meta-Options
Ultima Ratio Regum 6 commentsA massive update on the conversation and dialect-generation systems in URR 0.8!
Conversation Options, Scrolling, Databases
Ultima Ratio Regum 3 commentsA big URRpdate on speech systems and dialect generation!
Fortresses, Conversations, and Bugfixes
Ultima Ratio RegumLots of progress on conversations, fortresses, fixing bugs, and other small changes!
NPCs, Playtesting, Speech and Dialects
Ultima Ratio Regum 2 commentsA massive update as we finally approach the release of 0.8 - lots of bug-fixes, the conversation window, how dialects will work, and more!
The Final AI Update for URR 0.8
Ultima Ratio Regum 4 commentsThe final major AI update for the new version of URR, now a year in development. Castles, bug-fixes, and more!
Castles and Bugs
Ultima Ratio RegumWe're within a week of the URR 0.8 interim playtesting release, after a full year's work, and here is a big update on castle AI and NPCs!
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