Lateral Scenes?

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1

Is there a way to make some scenes non-linear? As in, each scene, instead of progressing one-by-one, can progress to a number of other scenes? For example, if you want to make a traversible map, each with different locations, could you assign each location a scene and move through them as your character chooses? And if so, how would you go about doing it? Thanks in advance.

2

You can either, depending on how big the scenes for the locations are use labels in the same scene, or use go_subs ir goto_scene.

3

You mean something like, say… 3 different parts of a district which have their own event, and all of them progress simultaneously?

The work can be quite… complicated, but it’s certainly doable. You’ll need a lot of *gotos and conditional checks to create such a scene (if I understand you correctly).

4

As in, the scene a player progresses to may change depending on the choices a player makes in their current scene.

5

As said, several ways, depending on how big things are:
Example

*label housetour
*choice
   *disable_reuse #Go to the attic
      *goto attic
   *disable_reuse #Go to the basement
      *goto basement
   *disable_reuse #Go to the garden
      *goto garden

*label attic
TEXT
*goto housetour

*label basement
TEXT
*goto housetour

etc

This would be alternate path for one scene, coming back to the initial choice

*choice
   #Take the green path
      *goto green
   #Take the blue path
      *goto blue

*label green
TEXT
*goto door

*label blue
TEXT
*goto door

*label door

This would lead from point A to point B by two different paths

*choice
   #Help Martha
      *go_sub martha
      *finish
   #Help Laura
      *go_sub laura
      *finish

This would lead to a subscene like this:

code for helping Martha
*return

the return moves you back to where you came from and thus to the ‘finish’ aka the next scene on the list then
The scenelist should look like this

1_sceneone
2_scenetwo (this is e.g. where the choice for martha and laura is)
3_scenethree
4_scenefour
epilogue
martha
laura

the finish would then proceed the story to the third scene.
EDIT: (forgot stuff)

fourth option is goto_scene

*choice
   #go to spain
      *goto_scene spain1
   #go to Japan
      *goto_scene japan1

with the scenelist looking like this

1_one
2_two (here you'd pick where to go)
spain1
spain2
spain3
japan1
japan2
japan3
3_backhome
4_four
5_five
epilogue

with the final bit in both spain3 and japan3 being *goto_scene 3_backhome

IIRC

6

Yeah, this is pretty easily done. Let’s say there’s a map with five locations; Village, Forest, Mountain, Desert and Swamp. First you’d need to make six files. “Village”, “Forest”, “Mountain”, “Desert”, “Swamp” and “Map”

On the page that says map, the text should read something like this:

Where do you want to go next?

*choice
#The Village
*goto_scene Village
#The Forest
*goto_scene Forest
#The Mountain
*goto_scene Mountain
#The Desert
*goto_scene Desert
#The Swamp
*goto_scene Swamp

Whenever you choose to leave any of these areas, you just need to use the code:
*goto_scene Map

7

In addition to this, can you track chosen options by a different code than setting variables for them ?

8

Depends what you wish to do.
If you want to check where obe has been later, you’ll need a variable.
If you just want people not to go somewhere twice, either use hide_reuse or disable_reuse, or, again a variable.

9

But as far as i know *hide and *disable commands reset after going to a scene and coming back. Im ok with setting a variable though, just wanted to see if there is another option.

10

If you use a go_sub instead of goto_scene it should keep the options.
I dunno if you wouldn’t be running risk of looping, so a variable is a better idea.