Are you using implicit control flow? I fail to see how that would work without any gotos otherwise.
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Oh yes, implicit control flow is on.
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I have a lot to say about the viability of *goto and *gosub in various situation, but I also have two hundred variables to sort before my code starts being readable. So maybe I should hold my tongue.
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I am in the *goto club rn because I, in my limited knowledge, don’t know any better way to do repeating choices:
*label 90
*fake_choice
*disable_reuse #Oh Divine...
[Text]
*goto 90
#It is decent
#Looks great!
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I mean there’d be no point for disable_reuse otherwise.
Gotos are great, if you think in flowcharts like I do. I see no reason to not use them, and plenty of reasons to not use implicit control flow.
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How unusual is the word “fortnight” for American readers? Fortnight meaning two weeks. I’ve changed most stuff (like kilos to pounds), but it will be kind of annoying to change fortnight, because a game mechanism depends on it.
This is getting more and more annoying. You have no idea how it feels to write about “Victoria Harbour” and then talk about the “tourists thronging the harborside”
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Couldn’t you just write in British English?
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You know Americans! Wouldn’t be able to make heads or tails of it!
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There are games in the catalogue that do so, Wayhaven as a prime example.
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Irrelevant but I find it a bit funny that being a not-native, my English is a mix of both British and American…
I am not sure how that affects my writing, but it’s impossible to fix now lol.
I am not sure of Americans but I think it’s a common word? I have seen/heard it used quite often.
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I’ll switch if I get too mad about it, although the prose already takes effort to read and it would add even more of a reading burden for players…
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I think you should leave fortnight in there. Most Americans know what it is. And if they don’t, Google exists. Or they go on believing you’ve spelled Fortnite wrong. 
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It saddens me greatly that people don’t appreciate physical dictionaries anymore.
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To be honest, I think the only place you can find a physical dictionary (or encyclopedia while I think of it) would be to go to the nearest library. I can’t recall having seen them for sale in stores since I was a kid. Which has now left me strangely nostalgic for my old Encyclopedia Britannica collection. 
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I’m collecting them from used book stores, whatever the English name for those are, although there are still some stragglers in book stores, and I have my old huge ones.
And that’s not to say I don’t use google too, although I’m particular to Wiktionary - but also the first thing I do when I’m setting up a proper working space (which I haven’t had in years sadly, and my backup working table isn’t big enough) is set up my pile of dictionaries and a function calculator (which… I also haven’t seen in years, I really should find it and check the batteries haven’t melted too badly).
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Ive always found it perfectly normal, but I think American English finds it more archaic. (I usually only seen it used in historixal fiction). Still, I wouldn’t bat an eye.
I think you might be underestimating the American audience a bit here.
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I’d lean into British writing. Personally I’m immediately a little impressed if I find out an author is British. Their command of the language is just often next level. (Almost as if they invented it!) I’ll admit I may be biased by my experiences, but at least 80% of the time I see incredible wit and prose in writing, it was penned by a Brit.
(I did spend a few years in the UK, and my lofty ideals of the British citizenry were almost immediately quelled when someone spat on my shoes as I left Heathrow airport, but I maintain that they do, on the whole, know how to write their language just a bit more beautifully than the rest of us do.)
And yeah, there are a few Americans out there on the internet going ‘what’s a kilogram’ and ‘you spelled color wrong’ but they’re just a loud minority and they’re not reading Choice of Games.
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You’ve got a great mentality about it! Anything new is going to be a struggle, but if you keep at it (and ask us for help when you need it!), then you’ll get the hang of it in no time!
With how much branching and convergence I have, I can’t even conceive of this! Not to mention things like menus.
Truthfully I pretty much only use gosub to do some background code things. If I have a repeated block of text I usually slap a label over the first one and then goto it, continuing from there.
Archaic, and I’ve never heard anyone use it in conversation. That being said, it’s still valid and honestly a useful word. I say use it.
Proud member of the “WHAT’S A KILOMETER?!?! guns shooting, eagles screeching” club, we will be fine!
Yeah there’s no special word for them. Used book stores is right. Or second-hand book stores.
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I’ve been using Choicescript for 13 years and I have never used gosub, or many other commands. I basically just use the bare minimum coding I can get away with
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That is my team mostly you and I are old fossils.
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