Quest System

Build the quest layer of a game — data model, runtime, the scripting engineering, emergent options, tracking UX, and authoring. Dialogue is a consumer interface (dialogue-system). References: BotW/TotK (the datamined flag-driven school) and Genshin (the datamined condition/exec school), with Witcher 3's REDkit and Skyrim's Creation Kit as authoring references, and Shadow of Mordor/Outer Wilds/Elden Ring for emergent and tracking models.

The architecture rule

Quests are data that observe the world — the world never waits for the quest. Definitions are immutable data; runtime state lives separately, keyed by stable IDs; progression is event-driven. A quest is a small program — a tiny state machine whose transitions are gated by gameplay conditions and whose state-entry runs side-effecting actions.