inkgd VS godot-behavior-tree-plugin

This series of videos is a step-by-step tutorial showing how to create a visual-novel-like games using Godot and Ink. This project uses the inkgd plug-in developed by Frédéric Maquin: https://github.com/ephread/inkgd Visual assets are made by puppetbomb: https://puppetbomb.itch.io/college-students-sprite-pack

There are other tools like that, if you're interested. Inkle (maker of 80 Days and Overboard) make another text based language called Ink, and there's an online hosting tool for making stories with it. Godot can even integrate with Ink-written stories, but it requires a bit of programming knowledge to get it to hang together

I would say something like Inkle's Ink could do this easily, though it can be overwhelming to look at from the start. There are a couple of Godot integrations with Ink, both a C# one here and a pure GDScript one (though they warn it might be slow on large games). InkGD has a couple examples that use simpler Ink stories, so you might just look through that for the examples to start.

https://github.com/ephread/inkgd -- Implementation of inkle's Ink in pure GDScript, with editor support. (ink scripts are used in our dialogue system)

Hey, looks great! I wonder what did you use for dialogue system. Do you have any recommendations? There are many repositories for this for Godot (some just UI, some using graphs, but most are abandoned), but it's hard for me to decide. All I know is I don't want to build yet another system from scratch, just plug it into my UI. From what I have researched Ink with Inkgd (https://github.com/ephread/inkgd) seems the most maintained and robust solution. Any opinions on that?

These plugins are explicitly NOT workable if you think in unity. https://github.com/godot-addons/godot-behavior-tree-plugin https://gitlab.com/atnb/xsm/

Also, there's https://github.com/godot-addons/godot-behavior-tree-plugin and something here https://gdscript.com/solutions/godot-behaviour-tree/. If you really need something working to touch first, then pick the one you understand better.

Seems like you need more variation in the behavior of your enemies. Using states for designing enemy ai is recommended if you have only a handful of states. What you want to achieve is more sophisticated I guess. Implementing it with states is certainly possible, but will get very messy quickly. I recommend you look up behavior trees (e.g. https://gdscript.com/solutions/godot-behaviour-tree/), as they allow you to design relatively easily different enemy ais. There is also a godot plugin which implements behavior trees (https://github.com/godot-addons/godot-behavior-tree-plugin).