Outer Wilds Wiki:Dialogue Manual

The goal of this Dialogue Manual is to share the established practice to transcript dialogues and have all dialogue on the Outer Wilds wiki follow the same standard formatting. The standard isn't set in stone and discussion of it will result in a better final result.

File structure
The dialogs of each character are available in a .txt named after the character. If they have multiple states with different dialog (for example Hal inside the museum and Hal outside the museum), there will be multiple files (in this example Hal_Museum.txt and Hal_Outside.txt). The ship logs (facts and rumors) are in files named after the planet or body they’re found on (for example the logs about the Ash Twin Project are all in TowerTwin.txt) Nomai and other in game texts are named [abbreviation of the place name]_[description], notes are named [writer]_[description] and some objects (specially those in the musseum are just after their description.

Text formatting

 * “NPC talking NPC talking on multiple pages”
 * >Player choice
 * “NPC response”
 * >(condition to unlock choice) second choice
 * Menu Example

Menu Example

 * “first menu sentence”
 * >Player choice
 * “NPC response in color ”
 * looping menu
 * >Player choice in italics
 * “NPC response in big ”
 * >Player choice in italics
 * “NPC response in small ”