Coding Help Please

Game Development ChoiceScript Help
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EDIT: I’ll be posting all coding issues I have here from now on.
Some help would be appreciated, as I don’t know what I am doing wrong.

I tried to play through my game to see how everything was going and there was an error.

This is the whole screen right now.
Some more help would be appreciated.

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And line 19 says “*set boy “boy””

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As the error states, you’ve mixed up spaces and tabs. Best thing to do is remove all your indentation and re-indent every line manually one-by-one. It’s a pain but it’ll work.

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Thanks so much! All fixed.

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One more thing before I go, I have a question about stats.

So, for example, the player eats a large meal and gains a %5 weight increase. What code would need to be used to do this?

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The first step would be to set a variable.
The second would be to add the variable to the stat chart.
The third would be to add the *set weight +5% increase in the code.

You may want to experiment with [Tool] Chronicler - ChoiceScript Visual Code Editor if you are hitting some snags. I feel like using this visual flow chart has helped me keep my game organized as it is very easy to create variables - and then manipulate them. CJW is also working on creating a program that will allow easier building of your stories - CSIDE.

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@ScatteredA Something like this…

*temp playerweight 123
*temp weightgain 0

*label myweight
Player currently weighs ${playerweight}
*line_break
How much weight does the player gain?

*choice
 #Five Percent
  *gosub gain5
  *goto myweight
 #Ten Percent
  *gosub gain10
  *goto myweight
 #Fifteen Percent
  *gosub gain15
  *goto myweight


*label gain5
*set weightgain (playerweight * 0.05)
*set playerweight (playerweight + weightgain)
*set playerweight round(playerweight)
Player gained 5 percent weight.

*return

*label gain10
*set weightgain (playerweight * 0.10)
*set playerweight (playerweight + weightgain)
*set playerweight round(playerweight)
Player gained 10 percent weight.

*return

*label gain15
*set weightgain (playerweight * 0.15)
*set playerweight (playerweight + weightgain)
*set playerweight round(playerweight)
Player gained 15 percent weight.

*return
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I think I asked the wrong thing. How do you make it so that when the player chooses a certain choice, they get an increase in a certain stat?

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If you wanted to increase by 5, for example (and not talking about increasing by percent)…
You would put something like

*set yourstat + 5

under your choice,

Example:

*choice
 #increase my str
  *set str + 5
 #increase my agi
  *set agi + 5
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One of the things in my game are dragons, and the MC gets one. They get to choose certain things about it, like it’s name, species, gender, etc. How do I set this up in startup.txt and choicescriptstats.txt, since the variable name already exists?

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Very carefully. :smile_cat:

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I actually think I got it down. I guess I’m learning!

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Actually you could have used replace command to replace four spaces with tab
As it is solved better using this in future
( solved many probs with that one - really cool command )