Yet another question about Aquaria

[Zam]

Cutscenes. I was just thinking about the dreams/howthose are made, and I was wondering if they were the only kind of 'cutscene' that was in Aquaria. (I was wondering how easy it'd be to impliment them in a player-made level)

[Alec]

They take a bit of work, most of them are done through scripting + the animation system.

The editor has things called "nodes". They're basically markers that you can name. Those get used a lot in cutscenes for picking where to spawn stuff / directing the camera.

[Hiro]

Hmm, sounds kinda hard. But a skilled/persistant modder could probably use it to make some cool stuff.

[Alec]

The system is a bit complicated, because it was made to be able to do a lot of different things and mainly for our own internal use. But once the game is out I plan on making a bunch of tutorials and the like, and setting up a forum to help people out whenever they run into problems.