Compilation and scenes

Game Development ChoiceScript Help
1

When I try to compile my game, part of the output is:

Searching for scene files…
startup.txt
choicescript_stats.txt
choicescript_upgrade.txt

and that’s it, as far as scenes are concerned. My /scenes folder also contains prologue1.txt, prologue2.txt and dungeon1.txt, but they aren’t found. Since my startup.txt is just

*create datename “empty”
*create know_guard_is_woman 0

*title Turandot
*author Victor Gijsbers
*scene_list
startup

*goto_scene prologue1

the game now starts off with the rather disappointing message:

Couldn’t load scene prologue1
The file doesn’t exist.

When I just run the game by going to the index.html, everything works fine. What am I doing wrong?

2

Try listing the scene files you want compiled in the scene_list and see if that fixes things.

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3

Yes, it does!

I had understood from the documentation and the wiki that it is legal to have scenes that are not listed in scene_list, and that scene_list is only important when you want to use the finish command. But is in fact required to have all scenes in scene_list?

4

There’s no way for the compile.html file to read your directory (browser security reasons) so whilst you can run a game without every scene in the scene list, you do need to include them all if you want to compile it.

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5

For compiling the game, yes, you need the scene list.

6

OK, thanks!

By the way, compiling the game is the preferred way of distributing ChoiceScript games, isn’t it? Or is it actually discouraged to use this?

7

There’s no obvious community preference and there are pros and cons to both.
Just use whichever you feel suits your needs best.

8

Not gonna lie, our preferred way of distributing ChoiceScript game is where you make thousands of dollars publishing your game via our Hosted Games or Choice of Games labels. :wink:

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9

Indeed, that sounds like the best way. :sunglasses: We’ll see what the future holds!