You might have toyed with the idea of having recorded dialog in your game and wondered what, exactly, that would entail. Well, wonder no more!

At GDC 2015 Double Fine senior gameplay programmer Anna Kipnis took the stage to deliver a broad overview of how dialog gets into a Double Fine game, from the moment a line is written to hearing and seeing the line in the engine, even in a foreign tongue.

It was a really interesting talk that focuses on the technology required to make it possible, as well as some useful approaches, including examples of dynamic dialog systems in games like Psychonauts.

If you missed out on seeing it in person last year, no worries -- you can now watch the entire talk for free over on the official GDC YouTube channel.

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