Quest database - many or one?

[QuestHole]

Our game will have a lot of quests. Should we create one, or a few, large quest databases? Or should we have numerous small ones, say one for each major quest line or an area with a few quests in the area?

If we have more than one quest database, does that mean the quests in our game world cannot affect each other? Can we even have more than one database? How would that work with the journal?

thanks.

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Either is fine. All of the databases assigned to the Quest Machine GameObject's Quest Databases list are treated as one big database at runtime.

[QuestHole]

Thanks. Can I export my databases into a standard format?

[Tony Li]

Hi,

A standard format for quests doesn't exist.

You can export Quest Machine quests to JSON file format. You can also export all of the text in a quest to a Text Table asset, and then export the Text Table to a CSV spreadsheet, which is handy for localization.