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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Your_First_Dialogue"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Your First Dialogue</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Basic_Dialogue"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Basic Dialogue</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Narration"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Narration</span></a></li>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline">Basic Dialogue</span></h3>
<p>Dialogue in Ren'Py is extremely easy. Once you've defined a character, you simply prefix their dialog, in quotes, with their name:</p>
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bob <span class="str">"Hi Alice!"</span>
alice <span class="str">"Hi Bob!"</span>
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<p>For characters who have very little screen time, you don't need to create a character for them if you don't mind their dialogue appearing in the default style:</p>
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bob <span class="str">"I wonder who this man approaching us is."</span>
alice <span class="str">"I don't know, but he looks tough."</span>
<span class="str">"Tough Guy"</span> <span class="str">"Yo. Whaddup?"</span>
bob <span class="str">"Hello."</span>
<span class="str">"Tough Guy"</span> <span class="str">"I'm oudda here."</span>
bob <span class="str">"That was strange."</span>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline">Narration</span></h3>
<p>Narration is simply dialog without anyone saying it:</p>
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<span class="str">"The brief appearance of that tough guy left me feeling uneasy.</span>
<span class="str"> Was it one of the rival noodle companies trying to intimidate me?"</span>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline">Spicing Up Your Text</span></h3>
<p>You can spice up your text using text tags:</p>
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<span class="str">"Text tags let you render parts of a dialogue or narration</span>
<span class="str"> in {i}italics{/i} or {b}bold{/b}."</span>
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<p>Text tags can do a lot of other things as well, check out the reference manual page on <a href="../reference/Text#tags" title="renpy/doc/reference/Text">Text Tags</a> for more information.</p>
<p>A word to the wise: text tags can be effective if used sparingly, but if used often they can make text painful to read.</p>
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