How do i actually run the game... please help

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*i suggest just scrolling down
so, ive been wanting to make a cyoa for a while now. now that i am in the process of making one, i cant get my game to run. when I ran the server, it just ran the default scene file. I thought that if i deleted it, it would run my game. Nah it cant run anything now. I have the needed files. I dont think theres something wrong with my code. i vaguely remember that you can upload what file to run, but i have absolutely no idea how to phrase that when searching threads here.
this is an embarassing first post

tldr: idk how to select/upload my game to let the server run it. please help

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Hi, are you using CSIDE? CSIDE has a built-in playtest option so you could directly test your game while coding/writing. As for uploading to Dashingdon, you upload file startup.txt first, then the next scene in your scene_list. For example:

*scene_list
startup
chapter1
chapter2

So when you upload, upload startup.txt first and then chapter1.txt (be mindful about capitalisation, chapter1.txt is not the same as Chapter1.txt)

If you don’t use CSIDE then I can’t really help you, since I don’t use traditional CS coding. You can download CSIDE though, it makes everything easier. Hope this helps.

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You can download https://github.com/dfabulich/choicescript and put all your files on web/mygame folder, you can manually play your game and test it automatically too.

@Sargent also made a modified version on which you can extract the values of the stats you want to check them out and have more feedback about them. you can find that version here → Generate Statistics About Your Stats

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This is the manual method. You’ll have to go through the entire process per replay, but it’s straightforward.

  1. Open the index.html file (…web/mygame/)
  2. “Upload” your file. Pick the folder where the entire CS is placed (the one that contains “doc”, “editor”, “test”, and “web”.)
    uno
    uno1920Ă—1080 119 KB

    duo
    duo1920Ă—1080 209 KB

    tres
    tres1920Ă—1080 117 KB
  3. Profit
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Omg this! I was gonna ask about some file problems but you were ahead of me! thanks alot!

im suprised this thread got noticed lol, yay! :smiley: thanks guys!

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I’m trying that but I get this error every time after I upload the files.

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How do I fix this and is there another way of testing the game? I have node downloaded but none of the quicktest options are opening

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You probably have the word " *working " somewhere. All * mark a command for he game. like *comment *set *create etc… you can’t use * (at the start of the line at least, I don’t know if you could use it after the first word on a normal text)

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You have an error in your code. Check again your variable declaration and follow Loudbeat’s suggestion.

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I hadn’t been able to run my game until you posted this explanation so a massive thanks!

With the greatest of respect to the existing guidelines, they are very unclear:

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I tried to do what was talked about 8 months ago and it doesn’t seem to work for me, I keep getting 404 error, is there anyway you guys can help like with screenshots or a video or anything that would help would be appreciated.

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What SO, browser are you using? What exactly you do that leads to that error?