# Advice for someone starting out **URL:** \ **Category:** Game Development\ **Tags:** tips, coder\ **Created:** [May 19, 2022, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/advice-for-someone-starting-out/118641 "2022-05-19T07:17:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Loudbeat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/loudbeat/32/115975_2.png) [@Loudbeat](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Loudbeat)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/advice-for-someone-starting-out/118641/5 "2022-05-19T10:16:01Z")
Here are some lin- Oh, Hanna won, I’m barely waking. Never mind. Here are some other links that may help you with your story > [@Tools to branch your game?](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/tools-to-branch-your-game/84127): > > Is there any tool to branch my story first before I start writing it? Or what tools do other authors use to have a draft of their story first? I’m not able to find a proper tool and don’t know where to find one. Can anyone help with this? > [@Generate Statistics About Your Stats](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/generate-statistics-about-your-stats/76175): > > To help me balance my stats in my work-in-progress, I modified randomtest to take snapshots of my stats and put them in a .csv file, which Excel and other spreadsheet programs can open. I put the changed code [on Github for anyone who wants to give it a try](https://github.com/sgranade/choicescript). You should be able to use it just like you would ChoiceScript from the main repository. To try this out, in your startup.txt file, put a special comment that sets up what variables to save: \*comment savestatsetup [stat1] [stat2] [stat3] Re… They certainly have helped me a lot. Otherwise, just start and see what problem you encounter. Plan ahead, cause the branching can get out of control really easy and you can end up with an unfinishable project that grows into a million words if you don’t contain it. And as they mentioned before, google first, cause someone probably had the same coding problem before you, and the answer is here on the forum or the wiki. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/advice-for-someone-starting-out/118641)._