New to this forum and really need some help with scripting

Game Development ChoiceScript Help
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Hi, I’m new to this forum and love the CoG’s. I’ve looked around and seen other games and must say I’ve liked them. (Also I hope I’ve put this in the right category, sorry if its not!!) I really want to make a choice game. I’ve downloaded the files and I’ve seen the help. It really isn’t helping me! I have gotten on it once but since closing it I am having no luck finding it in the files again. Can someone help me with finding it as well? When I managed to get on it overwhelmed me and I’m not sure what to delete or what to keep. Its really confusing :confused: Can anyone help?

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There’s some help in the ChoiceScript Google group, but it’s buried so I’ll put a paraphrased version here:

(This assumes you’re using Windows; I know next to nothing about Macs)

  1. Open up the “dfabulich-choicescript-e45124a” folder.

  2. Open the “web” folder.

  3. Copy the “mygame” folder and name it the title of your project.

  4. To take a look at the sample game, open “index”.

  5. To start your own game, open the “scenes” folder and delete everything but choicescript_stats.txt.

  6. Go back to the previous folder and right-click the “mygame” script file. Select “Edit”.

  7. Find where it says “nav = New SceneNavigator”

  8. Erase the names of the scenes you just deleted.

  9. To make a scene, open a new .txt document and start writing. Save it to the “scenes” folder.

  10. Edit the “mygame” script file again. Fill in the scene name you just made.

Some pictures because I think this is rather confusing:

Hope that helps!

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It did, thanks. I’ve done that and made 2 files. I’ve used the names that are already done (“Startup” and “Death”) How can I add text to it, etc. Also, with the stats bit, how do I change it to how I want? Sorry, again I am new to scripting and finding it quite confusing.

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On ChoiceScript in general:

On stats:

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Thanks. Would it be ok if I message you some of my scripts if they don’t work? I’d like some help if I can’t do it.

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Think I can do it alright now, might still want to message though.

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Yeah, that’s fine, though I’m certainly no expert.

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Neither am I, so my stuff will probably quite basic. I’m sure you can help with that :smiley:

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Just tried it out with a test of sorts… It came up with an error message when I clicked index. I may try to re-do a test.

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@EvilNorton lol just so you know…atleast 20%-40% of your writing will be typing codes… lol “I need Bengey” (Arthritis Lotion) is what your going to be saying after long hours of typing… :slight_smile: oh and welcome to CoG…check out my CoG on the discussion titled “My New CoG Bushido Code”

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Will do :smiley:

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@EvilNorton If you post your error message, most of the people on the forum will readily help you if figuring out what when wrong. Just as a note: Try to use Internet Explorer lauching the game, as Firefox garbles the error reports (and Google Chrome doesn’t work unless the game is actually loaded up on a web site).

@MouaThug That really is a matter of what you’re tracking. I’m sure “The Trouble with Wumples” doesn’t have more than a handful of lines that are actual coding (although 20-40 is probably a good estimate for games on the same complexity level as CoV and CoR/I).