ChoiceScriptDev Wikia

fantom · 2012-12-12T11:59:08.000Z

This thread needs to be stuck at the top of the forum with those others.

AlexCosarca · 2012-12-12T12:02:36.000Z

@fantom, well, there’s already the “I need help with ChoiceScript! What do I do?” thread that’s stickied and that’s linking the wiki.

RETowers · 2013-01-16T06:55:48.000Z

Put up my own game on the WIP Hub!

ChoiceScript Wiki

Aeon Sage

In Aeon Sage, you take the role of a security officer on the titular ship, where everything seems to go wrong. First, you're doing the same sort of annoying day to day tasks as where you were a rent-a-cop, then you're spending your time searching for...

@CJW Hey, after I’m good and settled with my demo (after I’ve worked out all the kinks to the point where I feel comfortable calling the demo really ‘official’), I’ll try to work on that ‘simple’ tutorial, like we discussed.

BlueOwl358 · 2013-07-14T02:23:18.000Z

I have created a WIP page for my game (Life in Ancient Greece)

ChoiceScript Wiki

Life in Ancient Greece

"When you wake up in the middle of nowhere and find yourself in the past with no way back to your own time, you must start life again in Ancient Greece. Will you align yourself with either Athens, Sparta or Olympia. But things will not be that easy....

CJW · 2013-07-15T06:33:58.000Z

@BlueOwl358 Added it!

assassinsat · 2013-08-15T09:12:17.000Z

I created a WIP page for medieval moments

ChoiceScript Wiki

Medieval Moments

Step into the armor plated boots of a medieval warrior in 15th century England. Experience what it was like fighting in the Hundred Years' War, join the Lancastrians or Yorkists in crowning the next King of England or carve your own tale through...

CJW · 2013-08-15T13:12:53.000Z

@assassinsat Added!

assassinsat · 2013-08-15T13:18:24.000Z

@cjw thanks

CJW · 2013-09-10T06:39:22.000Z

So there’s been quite a few changes to Choicescript recently, and very few changes (if any) to the wiki.

I’m hoping to try and remedy this, so I thought I’d just post here and see if anyone has noticed anything in-particular that needs doing. Anything at all.

I know there’s the obvious changes to *temp/*create and being able to define *scene_list in the CS files (making mygame.js unnecessary) - but I’ve undoubtedly forgot some other bits and bobs, so if anything comes to mind, please do let me know!

And on a related note, the admins have decided to allow open editing, so anyone with a wikia account can edit the wiki. It’s just going to be constantly out of date otherwise. The only issue with that is we need to unlock each page one by one, which I’ll try to remember to do as I make amendments. But there is a lot of pages, so it may be something of a long-term migration!

EDIT: Just remembered achievements are implemented now? Have any published authors utilized these yet? It’s not something I’m able to test (so know nothing about).

Cataphrak · 2013-09-10T07:27:39.000Z

Sabres of Infinity has achievements, and I’m pretty sure @Lucid has them in Life of a Wizard too.

CJW · 2013-09-10T14:52:34.000Z

Would either of you be willing to do a small writeup on how to implement them?

nine · 2013-09-10T16:59:53.000Z

Achievements? You know I read a post on CotV:Memphis that said something about that and I wondered about that…

I’m guessing… < *achievement xxxx > doesn’t work… and I’m also guessing it isn’t anything to do with an < *if xxxx_true… and then you write some blurb > cause that would be too easy?

Dear @Cataphrak can I @CJW +1 and say yes please?!

Lucid · 2013-09-10T20:45:15.000Z

You may have up to 1000 points in Achievements, but you can’t take them away. For this reason, Apple suggests that you don’t award them all, in case you want to add some later. Life of a Wizard awards 850 points. If an extension ever came (and I don’t think there will be), I’d have another 150 to give away.

The command in Choicescript looks like this:

*achieve dragonslayer Killed the dragon Parnaxxus

The CoG staff do the rest, including the icons, but they need you to fill in the following:

Display Title: Dragon Slayer
Point Value: 100
Short Name: dragonslayer
Hidden: False
Earned Description: Killed the dragon Parnaxxus
Preearned Description: Kill the dragon Parnaxxus
Banner Description: Killed the dragon Parnaxxus

It’s actually pretty easy to do and it’s fun to see it in Game Center… if you have any friends that play these games. I had achievements in Life of a Wizard before this, but when CoG started using Game Center achievements, I got the call asking if I’d like to add them.

So, for future CoG trivia… Life of a Wizard was the first game to use Game Center achievements.

nine · 2013-09-11T06:09:19.000Z

@Lucid Aaaaaahh… *-

I mistakenly *thought* it was something in the CS code alone (rather than for Game Centre) A bit like when you finish Tin Star and it gives you a list of stuff you’ve done.

Still I agree it looks simple enough to do, and I’m sure it looks fun in Game Centre… (although whatever happened to just finishing the game :-/ )

CJW · 2014-01-19T12:06:12.000Z

As a sort of side to the IDE update, and the intention to update the wikia I was toying with the idea of emeddable IDE code. Here’s a rough example:
http://gyazo.com/78d9f21459072e24b4358620bb8a4154.png
http://gyazo.com/09c81fd815f9edd831dbbe638d214f52.png

(Note: I’ve not actually changed the wiki page, I’ve just made it look like I did in the pictures!)

This would hopefully give the readers an opportunity to *see* how the code works in real-time, as well as giving them a chance to edit it and play around a bit. It wouldn’t replace the text code, but I think it could make a good addition to certain pages.

For e.g. at the bottom of the *choice command page it might say “Right, now have a go at making your own choice:” and provide you with a basic (editable) template.

Before I go any further with the idea, does anyone have any strong opinions on this (good or bad)?

FairyGodfeather · 2014-01-19T12:51:19.000Z

I think that’s awesome.

fantom · 2014-01-19T13:10:22.000Z

Very nice.

CJW · 2014-03-27T12:17:37.000Z

@lordirish
Glad to hear it!

Before we take a closer look do any of you have any comments on the embeds?
Do the aesthetics want changing or do different features and options want including, or do they look good for now?

I tried to make them simple, functional and like the wiki in terms of theme.
I might remove the stats button, as for obvious reasons, that’s not present in the embed (should it be though?).

Lordirish · 2014-03-26T23:16:24.000Z

I am always around :), but phone has crapped out so hope to replace it this weekend. Once I am up and running again will be happy to help.

CJW · 2014-03-25T08:54:06.000Z

Hey all, so to follow on from that post earlier this year, I finally got around to actually implementing a quick mockup of the above embeddable editors, which you can see and play around with here:

ChoiceScript Wiki

IDE Test Page

The first example is editable, feel free to change the code before running it and seeing the result. The second example is read only, you can run it and see what the code does, but you can't make any changes to it.

It’s a first implementation, so it’s not perfect, and I welcome all suggestions and criticisms etc (I know that if you spam click the result button it throws an error, I’m already working on that).

Asides from that, does anyone have any suggestions for pages that might benefit from such embeds, or maybe some tutorial ideas etc?
Also if anyone’s up for writing some of these examples, let me know - it’d be much appreciated - I’ll jot your name down, as I’ll probably need to explain how to stick one of these in a page, as it requires a bit of a workaround

P.S.
I apologize in advance for my horrible example code!