Method and device for controlling player character dialog in a video game located on a computer-readable storage medium

A computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a video game program, said video game program executable by a computing device for performing steps of a method for controlling character dialog in said video game displayed in a video game space, the steps comprising:

• a) providing at least two game characters within said video game,
• b) displaying said at least two game characters in said video game space,
• c) permitting said at least two game characters in said video game space to interact in at least one dialog encounter,
• d) permitting a game player of said video game to control attributes of one of said at least two game characters,
• e) providing a computing input device in communication with said video game space, and
• f) activating said computing input device by said game player to control at least two opposing emotions of said one of said at least two game characters for affecting a sequence of character dialog events that occur between said at least two game characters during said at least one dialog encounter, the step of activating the computing input device by said game player triggering forward momentum of one of a plurality of single pass-through dialog sequences for said at least one dialog encounter, wherein each one of said plurality of single pass-through dialog sequences reaches at least one end point of said at least one dialog encounter by a different pathway, said sequence of character dialog events comprising a multiplicity of individual character dialog interactions, said step of activating said computing device to control said at least two opposing emotions occurring at each of said multiplicity of individual character dialog interactions of said at least one dialog encounter between said at least two game characters.