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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-22 at 03:51

Just found a bug that only happen when players are rapidly skipping dialog. The writer in me want to mark the bug as "Won't fix".

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Written by LexGear :godot: :linux: on 2025-01-22 at 03:53

@grumpygamer hahahaha

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Written by Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 on 2025-01-22 at 03:54

@grumpygamer

I like to think that if you were in Sierra, that would have been accepted practice.

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Written by Gerard Braad on 2025-01-22 at 03:54

@grumpygamer

Add sleep statements between the skips...

Teach those speed runners a lesson 🤭

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Written by yomimono, still on earth on 2025-01-22 at 03:55

@grumpygamer the speedrun supporter in you may have a different opinion!

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Written by Pascal 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-22 at 05:12

@yomimono

Speedrunners should use Ctrl-W.

@grumpygamer

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Written by Tuftears on 2025-01-22 at 04:11

@grumpygamer Clearly you need to have it detect when players are skipping rapidly and have the characters get upset!

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Written by Future Sprog on 2025-01-22 at 04:43

“Are you even listening to a word I said?”

@Tuftears @grumpygamer

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Written by Rokojori on 2025-01-22 at 06:03

@grumpygamer I had a similar bug for rewards. If you would fast foward and skip it, an animation would be interrupted. It's ending however was the callback for actually adding the reward to the player's inventory. ^^

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Written by Käsekuchen on 2025-01-22 at 06:23

@grumpygamer

Hold to skip is a common pattern.

How about a quick time event to skip? Or little Dance Dance Revolution widget in the corner of the screen....

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Written by Ryan on 2025-01-22 at 06:35

@grumpygamer Maybe trigger a 4th wall break from the characters?

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Written by HerrJonatant on 2025-01-22 at 06:41

@grumpygamer Give the player a skip budget.

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Written by Pierre Equoy on 2025-01-22 at 06:51

@grumpygamer implement a feature where the more the player presses A to skip dialogs, the slower the dialogs are at being skipped...

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Written by Bäärig! on 2025-01-22 at 07:24

@pieq @grumpygamer

Or there is a special unskipable dialogue.

If its the third play they shouldn’t mind seeing it for the first time ;)

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Written by xinit ☕ on 2025-01-22 at 07:27

@grumpygamer The responses are a whole lot of things I don't like seeing in a game, as a non-speedrunner player. It's up there with forced tutorials.

In some games, I've already been through dialogs and don't want them again or they display at an absurdly slow pace like I'm on a 300bps modem connection.

Introducing a budget, getting slower, etc? I'd be tempted to just put the game down and not return.

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Written by Tommy Thorn on 2025-01-23 at 05:35

@xinit @grumpygamer I came to say this. Don’t 2nd guess your customers.

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-23 at 06:26

@tommythorn @xinit Relax. It was a joke.

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Written by xinit ☕ on 2025-01-23 at 06:30

@grumpygamer your post was, and I understood it. I wanted to counter the apparent sadists responding. Now, about telling people to relax... ;)

@tommythorn

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Written by Mathieu Goux on 2025-01-22 at 07:55

@grumpygamer After anti-piracy measures, anti-"IDGAF" apparatus.

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Written by Ric on 2025-01-22 at 08:48

@grumpygamer https://youtu.be/QeNdC8hVIT0 👀

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Written by :hal_9000: on 2025-01-22 at 09:10

@grumpygamer totaly understand, but as a player who had in the past to see the same dialog again and again (and couldn't skip), I would like to be able to skip.

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Written by Torbjörn Andersson on 2025-01-22 at 09:14

@grumpygamer Of course, in The Secret of Monkey Island there was that one scene where trying to skip dialog led to different - only slightly shorter - dialog instead.

(I would have loved to illustrate this with the 16 color version of the game, but Disney is still too petrified by the thought of accepting my money to sell it to me. Come on, Disney! Of course I will still respect you in the morning!)

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Written by rockpick on 2025-01-22 at 09:24

@grumpygamer the solution clearly is to remove the skip option for dialogue xD

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Written by Raptor :gamedev: on 2025-01-22 at 09:47

@grumpygamer one thing i really want to do in one of my dialog trees is have right in the middle of a conversation a branching path that locks you into the bad ending if you skip over it or mash through it 😈

I used to have a friend who was really bad with that, he'd literally skip all the dialog than complain about not knowing where to go next in a game...it drove me nuts...

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Written by aks on 2025-01-22 at 10:09

@grumpygamer

you can mark the bug as "tl;dr"

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Written by Ölbaum on 2025-01-22 at 13:53

@grumpygamer Edit: it seems people in the replies were joking as well, and I was in a mindset where I took them seriously, so my reply was unnecessary mean. Sorry.

I’ll keep the main argument:

I think there ability to skip dialogue is an accessibility feature that benefits people with ADHD, autism, and likely more.

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Written by Daniel Wolf on 2025-01-22 at 19:13

@oscherler @grumpygamer It's my impression that most if the commenters took Ron's joke and went with it. I don't think they seriously called for unstoppable dialog.

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Written by Ölbaum on 2025-01-22 at 19:47

@DanielWolf You’re probably right. Most likely, I read one that was not funny and it put me in a mindset where all subsequent posts didn’t register as jokes. I’ll edit.

@grumpygamer

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Written by RuiBEAT :d12: on 2025-01-23 at 10:13

@grumpygamer Why!? Why should i "fix it" instead of preventing the player from skipping the dialogues!?

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