Choice of games help

Game Development ChoiceScript Help
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Hi there. Hope you all are doing great. So it’s been quite some time since I have been here or trying to write choicescript games. Lately I have been wanting to get back at it but I must confess I kinda forgot the basics of choicescript (Yeah I don’t have a great memory). So I’m trying to get back in shape. I have browsed the choicescript wiki fandom but I feel like it’s not enough can anybody point me to somewhere that have a full guide or tuto with the latest updates of choicescript preferably? Thanks.

Also something that have bugged me since I started choicescript (I never addressed I settled on only using one word stats):

When I’m writing a game in the choicescript_stats txt file and I try to show a multiple word stat like this

*stat_chart
text :muscle: Strength (str) :

My latest project looks like this:

📜 [A Torn Page from the Royal Chronicle]

The parchment is old, edges frayed, its ink faded yet resolute. This is the record of your being—unfinished, yet ever shaping itself with every choice you make.

            ~~~~~~°~~~~~~

*text name 🖋 Name: 
*text title 👑 Title: Royal Heir
*text age Age

            ~~~~~~°~~~~~~
            
⚖ Core Attributes (Carved into your flesh and spirit, honed through trial and time.)
*stat_chart
 text ✦ Strength (STR): 
 text ✦ Dexterity (DEX):

It always return an error something along the lines of: couldn’t extract another token. I have tried multiple ways to link the different words but it always return the same error

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Check your indentation, it seems you’re using only one space there.

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There’s no command text. If you’re tying to set a variable, you must use create (for global variables, must be at the startup file), temp (for local variables) or set (for existing variables).

*text name 🖋 Name: 

*temp name "🖋 Name: "

Your stat_chart is wrong. The signature is like this:

*stat_chart
    <display-type=text|percent|opposed_pair> <variable> <?first-label>
        <?second-label (for opposed_pair only)>

The text display type always produces this output:

<display=variable-name|first-label>: <variable-value>

Example:

*create strength 75

*stat_chart
    text strength [b]Your Strength[/b]

Produces:

image

It’s opinionated and strict, and you can get the same result with string interpolation.

[b]Your Strength[/b]: ${strength}

What you’re trying to do is this:

*stat_chart
    text  ✦ Strength (STR): 
    ^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    type  label

You have a label, but where’s the variable? Also, you don’t need the colon (:), it will be added when rendering the stat.

ChoiceScript is an indent aware language (similar to Python, Haskell, Markdown, Yaml, etc), it uses indentation to mark code blocks.

ChoiceScript uses the first receding paragraph in a file as its reference for the indentation. It means you can mark indentation using a single space, three spaces, a tab, many tabs, etc, what’s important is consistency.

Since you have this line of code, it will use all the space in front of it as indentation.

            ~~~~~~°~~~~~~
^^^^^^^^^^^^

It might not throw an error now (strangely), but it surely will later. The worst part is that it doesn’t even matter, because HTML ignores whitespace, so your divider will end up left aligned anyway. That’s the reason, most everyone uses an image as divider.

If, despite that, you still want the extra space to organize your code, but don’t want the issue with indentation, you can wrap the spaces with interpolation syntax.

${"       "}~~~~~~°~~~~~~

But like I said, you want to use images for dividers.

*image <uri> <?alignment=left|center|right>

*image ./divider.jpg center
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Did you check the official guide?

I’d wager the ✦ is what’s causing problems here. It’s where a variable name should be in the code.

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No I did not. Where is it?

I checked but it is not the indentation. I think the explanation might be here but I can’t quite grasp it fully:

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This is getting kinda confusing is choice script becoming HTML or something. I don’t remember it having these types of commands.

Well that’s an error on my part. It did throw an error when I first uploaded the file but I fixed it on CSIDE but forgot to update the local file in my phone.

I would love to use image but the problem is I do not know where I would get them.

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Thank you. This is much more comprehensive than the fandom

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There is only one space there, but you might have more problems than that. Check line 15 as the error says and go step by step.

As far as I know you can use 2 or 4 spaces, not 1. Like this:

*stat_chart
  text ✦ Strength (STR): 
  text ✦ Dexterity (DEX):
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Bruh. :roll_eyes:

I wrote a whole essay explaining it. You’re missing the most important part, the actual variable.

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Thank you for the information

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