I need some help coding

[Scorpio00]

I can’t really tell you the details of what my team and I are working on, but I need help coding the first chapter. I’m a complete beginner and the guides I’ve tried to use (including the wiki) aren’t really helping me. I don’t seem to understand how the parts work together or even how the individual parts function at times.

First, I would like know how you can code for names. I have made a list of names, but I don’t know how to make them appear within the text depending on the player’s choice.

I also want the first chapter to start off differently depending on A) who the player has chosen to ally with and B) whether the player was cooperative or not. I’m not sure how to code for that or if it’s even possible to code for it.

Any help you could provide would be appreciated. Coding has been a far bigger pain than writing for me.

[Cecilia_Rosewood]

Let’s redirect you to some more guides first. (You’re not going to get rid of them all that easily. Sorry ;P)

The first guide specifically covers name and gender variables, so that should help you with your first question.

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…

The other two guides are a bit less specific.

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 …

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…

[Scorpio00]

That first one looks like it will be quite useful.

I’ve stared at and tried to comprehend the other two, but I cannot escape them forever I guess.