#choicescript tutorial

[hpowellsmith]

One day I'm going to write a proper polished blogpost about testing for difficulty balance for ChoiceScript games. It is not this day, but here's a link to my most recent short post on the subject.

[dcitrinegames]

Choicescript Tutorial: The Stat Page

So this is a culmination of several tutorials plus some self-taught and trial and error, so I can walk you through customizing the stat page!

VERY long, so under the cut!

So, first, you’re going to create your variables in your start-up; mine look like this.

(Some names and love interests are blanked out because they haven’t been announced yet, lol as of: 11/20/21.)

There’s a boolean true/false for if you’ve met the companion yet, their friendship/romance points, and their relationship display, which you have to create in the start up. That will look like this:

You create a label for each section you want; I have one for skills, personality traits, relationships with your team, personal relationships, heist notes, and decisions. You can have as many as you want, and you can also only enable an option to be available once you’ve met certain conditions, like this.

As you can see, I have a label for skills, and a choice option with a “button” for each of the labels on the state page; you can definitely set conditions that have to be set to reveal things (example above) either with the buttons or in a paragraph, for example.

And finally, you get to character pages. This is where you use those lines of code in your startup. Here’s Caolán’s for the example.

And this is the basics; you can create as many labels as you want for different sections (personality, personal relationships, professional relationships, etc), just make sure you have the matching buttons for navigation.

It might take a little trial and error like it did for me, but hopefully, this cleared a few things up for y’all. Don’t be afraid to experiment! I’ve done things I wouldn’t be able to do if I hadn’t sat down and played with choicescript and tried things out! And remember to check out the choicescript wiki.

[hpowellsmith]

ChoiceScript savepoint sample code

Hey all! I’ve made a template for making save/load checkpoints for your game. In this example the savepoints are placed between chapters, but you can put them wherever you like.

To see how it feels to play, a playable version is here and you can view the code here.

Also check out a quick way of generating your variable list from @/uroboros-if.

Hope it’s useful - let me know if you see anything wrong in it, or if you have any questions!