"Hi everyone! I am Caligula, one of Stellarisβ Content Designers, which means that I do a variety of tasks based around narrative writing and scripting - βscriptingβ being our term for doing things that is somewhat similar to programming, but without changing the source code. In other words, I do what modders do (though I have the significant advantage of also being able to peek into the source code and change it around when needed). Every Content Designer has their niche, and mine is that when a particularly complicated system needs to be scripted in (or, more frequently, is giving some sort of trouble - the War in Heaven still gives me nightmares...), I step into the breach.
Now, we have a lot of exciting stuff to show off in the weeks and months to come, but for today, inspired by some questions that were asked after the last dev diary, Iβm going to be writing about the technical side of scripting for modders and aspiring modders, specifically with an eye on what can cause ...
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