@Claire1805 Welcome aboard! You can do it!
What was it that was confusing to you? Just everything?
I actually found the best way to learn choicescript was by working with it. By reading games written in it, especially Choice of the Dragon since itās one of the least complicated of the games https://www.choiceofgames.com/dragon/scenes/startup.txt
What Iād suggest is you just need three commands to start with.
*label *choice and *goto
You can make a choicescript game using just those three.
Then just write your game (in a text editor not in a word processor). Keep it simple.
*label *choice and *goto just work like those old Choose Your Own Adventure games. But rather than
Page 1
If you want to dance with the prince go to page 4
If you want to kick him in the face go to page 7
Page 4
The Prince stomps on your feet and you can no longer dance! The End!
Page 7
You kick the Prince in the face and the guards try to arrest you.
If you run away from the guards goto page 100
If you kick them in the face goto page 65
If you ask a guard to dance goto page 18
You just use them like this
*label prince
Do you want to dance with the prince
*choice
#Yes, I want to dance with the prince
*goto dance_prince
#No! I'll kick him in the face
*goto kick_prince
*label dance_prince
The Prince stomps on your feet and you can no longer dance! The End!
*finish
*label kick_prince
You kick the Prince in the face and the guards try to arrest you.
*choice
#If you run away from the guards
*goto runaway
#If you kick them in the face
*goto kick_guard
#If you ask a guard to dance
*goto dance_guard
Then you just label up the next sections.
Does that make sense? Thatās very, very basic. You can also do it like
*label prince
Do you want to dance with the prince
*choice
#Yes, I want to dance with the prince
The Prince stomps on your feet and you can no longer dance! The End!
*finish
#No! I'll kick him in the face
*goto kick_prince
*label kick_prince
You kick the Prince in the face and the guards try to arrest you.
*choice
#If you run away from the guards
You run away as fast as you can from the guards.
*goto runaway
#If you kick them in the face
You knew your dancing lessons would come in handy. You leap into the air and do a mighty spin-kick kicking all the guards in the face.
*goto kick_guard
#If you ask a guard to dance
You politely ask a guard to dance, while the Prince's nose gushes blood all over the marble ballroom floor.
*goto dance_guard
Incidentally, some of my favourite games arenāt written by the most eloquent of writers. It takes a different skill-set to write a good choice game than it does to write a good novel. You might find you have a talent for this.