How do you add a name?

[PristineManiac4]

I’m very new at coding and I’m starting to have some trouble giving the reader a name despite reading the Introduction to Choice Script. What I’m doing is, on the startup.txt, I am typing *create name “unknown” (I am trying to have their name be unknown until they get the option to change it…which I obviously don’t know how to do, but I figured I’d learn this first)

Then on the stats.txt, I type,

text name

I have also tried to type, text name “unknown” on the stats.txt, but both result in it telling me,

Invalid expression, couldn’t extract another token: “unknown"

I’m not entirely sure what I’m doing wrong, even though I’m positive it is an obvious mistake that I should have easily figured out myself. Still, I’d appreciate if you can help a newcomer with this problem.

[Cecilia_Rosewood]

To display stats you need to use a

*stat_chart

command first. Have you used that before typing text name? And if so, has it been indented properly?

[PristineManiac4]

I did put it before, I actually have a few percentages that are working fine. I indented the text name the same amount of spaces as the other percentages and the same error keeps appearing.

[Cecilia_Rosewood]

What is the error message?

[Scribblesome]

If you want to just display the name, putting ${name} will work

[FairyGodfeather]

${name} works too.

I have a very simple name tutorial

A Basic Tutorial on Name, Relationship and Gender Variables

I’ve been working on a very basic tutorial to try and explain how you create and set name, gender, and a few things about relationships. It may have errors. If it does please point them out and I’ll fix them. I’m not even sure if it makes sense so I’d appreciate input on that. https://www.dropbox.com/s/vlhshjgo4psrv3t/tutorial.txt You can copy and paste it into CJW’s amazing IDE https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7840892/CJW/choicescript/tools/IDE/main.html to see how it works. I think next…

Also try

The wiki

@RETowers has a tutorial covering all of choicescript

The Beginners Guide to ChoiceScript

So, any long time member may know that I made a ChoiceScript Guide. Well after so long and so many iterations, I’m closing in on completing it. My intentions with this guide is to create something that, no matter your level of skill or computer knowledge, it can teach you the basics of ChoiceScript. For me to consider it truly ‘done’ though, I want to make sure it includes every thing that any aspiring ChoiceScript writer may want. So if you don’t know what to do with ChoiceScript, try checking …

As does @Lglasser

ChoiceScript Full Tutorial (finished!)

Link: ChoiceScript Interactive Tutorial I’ve lashed together basically everything you could want from a ChoiceScript Tutorial. It has a guided page-by-page tutorial, as well as a “Chapter List” page for easy navigation. It has examples of all the different commands, along with appropriate ways to use them, and common mistakes that can end up breaking the game. There’s even pictures accompanying some examples. It has pages that help out with Quicktest and Randomtest. It also has higher level exa…

[PristineManiac4]

Invalid expression, couldn’t extract another token: “unknown"

[Cecilia_Rosewood]

You only need text name for that one. You don’t need the “unknown” in the stats screen.

[PristineManiac4]

I only add “unknown” to the startup.txt and the same error occurs.

[FairyGodfeather]

Check your quote marks. In two of those examples you’ve posted you have curly quotes. “ You don’t want those, you want “”.

[PristineManiac4]

That was the problem, thank you for the help!

[PristineManiac4]

I figured out the problem, but I still really appreciate you helping me out! Thanks!