Sorry to bother everyone I’m new to coding and all these but I love Choice of Games so much that I want to create one of my own I’m starting to get the hang of the basic coding but I still don’t know how to add a last name. I copied some of the codes from the given Choice of a Dragon and tweaked it so that it would help me a bit and I still don’t know how to separate the Basic stats and the Relationships. I’m already staring on my work but only just a bit of it.
Hi, I just moved it into the “Choicescript help” category 
Have a good day, and I hope you will find help (I’m sure you will 
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What’ve you got so far?
Have you looked at
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@FairyGodfeather Not yet but thanks I need all the help I can get
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I also did a tutorial specifically on names. (Not sure if the others include that.) There’s a few tweaks I’d ideally make to it nowadays but I’m thinking there’s likely someone done a better one around.
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Can you pinpoint the part where you went wrong?
Oh I didn’t go wrong anywhere. I’d have just added a few fancy other options in. Like automatically capitalising the first letter of a name. And maybe adding in an option for gender-neutral characters. But the basics are there.
There was nothing wrong with your tutorial it was amazing and it helped me so much but whenever I run Quicktest on firefox this pops up “Error: startup line 189: It is illegal to fall out of a *choice statement; you must *goto or *finish before the end of the indented block.”
Those are tricky. Try using *fake_choice instead. I use it almost exclusively for that reason.
Background: If you use *choice you have to *finish or *goto at the end do every #decision.
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Can you paste a sample of your code around line 189?
As it says, you need to have a *goto or a *finish after every single section in a choice block, unless you use fake_choice. I use fake_choice a lot to avoid that, but it’s bad practice.
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@CitizenShawn I tried it and it worked perfectly
@FairyGodfeather Here is the code i don’t know if it will help
*label orientation
Who are you attracted to?
*choice
#Men
*if (gender="male")
*set orientation "gay"
*goto meet_romance
*if (gender="female")
*set orientation "straight"
*goto meet_romance
#Women
*if (gender="female")
*set orientation "gay"
*goto meet_romance
*if (gender="male")
*set orientation "straight"
*goto meet_romance
*label meet_romance
*if ((gender="male") and (orientation="gay"))
*gosub lover_male
*goto lover_male
*if ((gender="female") and (orientation="straight"))
*gosub lover_male
*goto lover_male
*if ((gender="male") and (orientation="straight"))
*gosub lover_female
*goto lover_female
*if ((gender="female") and (orientation="gay"))
*gosub lover_female
*goto lover_female
*label lover_female
*set valentine "Valentina"
*set boyfriend "girlfriend"
*set husband "wife"
*set val_he "she"
*set val_his "her"
*set val_man "woman"
*set handsome "beautiful"
*return
*goto A
*label lover_male
*set valentine "Valentine"
*set boyfriend "boyfriend"
*set husband "husband"
*set val_he "he"
*set val_his "his"
*set handsome "handsome"
*set val_man "man"
*return
*goto A
*label A
You are now stranded what are you going to do?
*fake_choice
#Die
*finish
#Starve
*finish
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If all else fails I’m gonna use “fake_choice”
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Why are you gosubing and then goto-ing the same label? That’s strange, the *choice part of your code seems to be correct, not sure why you would get that error.
The last *fake_choice is fine (oh, was that where the error was?), but you don’t need to *finish under each of those, you can just put *finish at the end, like this:
*label A
You are now stranded, what are you going to do?
*fake_choice
#Die
You Die
#Starve
You Starve
*finish
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@CitizenShawn Sorry I’m so new to coding I’m just learning bit by bit i haven’t coded anything before thanks for the help though
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No need to apologize, I’m sorrry! I realized it sounded like I thought you knew what you were doing after I posted. I know you’re new xD
In this particular situation, you just need to use *goto, *gosub will bring you back to that point after a *return. So here, you can get rid of the *gosubs and the *returns. 
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I used subs for a reason in my example, although you definitely don’t actually need them in that instance, and I can’t really remember why I used them.
I think it was because I had two occasions when you might be setting things male, two setting things female, and I liked the idea of bouncing back to where you started. But I don’t make full use of actually having used subroutines instead of gotos there, so that might have also been something on my todo list to fix about the tutorial.
The tutorial I made had a section for gender variables, along with detailed notes on how to get gender neutral options in there, if you want to reference that as a starting point for improving your own guide.
P.S. I would actually recommend against automatically capitalizing names, in case someone wants to RP as bell hooks or someone like that.
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How do you add checkpoints to your work?
What do you need checkpoints for? They’re not something I tend to bother with.
There are a few ways,
Since I’m lazy I might just point at your guide and leave it at that.
I agree! However I think it’s a nice thing to show writers it’s possible, since it was one of those little things I went ooh at. Only I couldn’t find a way to work it into my tutorial.
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