One thing I’ve come across so far is when you write a choice does it have to end the scene or can you continue the scene?

A choice comes in two flavors: *choice #an option *goto a_label #another option *goto b_label And *fake_choice #an option Maybe some text. #another option This is where the game text will continue. So the answers is no: unless you want a choice to move on to the nex…

Thanks, I’ve been thinking of starting this for a while but I find the coding difficult sometimes. I’m learning mostly from videos on YouTube but that only does so much.

Could you explain what a fake choice is for? I’ve played a couple CoG games so if you got an example it would help.

A fake choice looks like a regular choice, but all choices go to the same bit of text. So you won’t need a label and goto, and you can still set stuff like stats and other variables, plus have some flavor text. I’m currently on mobile, so I can’t copy paste one well, but, here’s a file from my own…

The ChoiceScript Wiki is also really helpful if you need more information. [image] Fake choice The*fake_choice command is an alternative to the*choice command. To the player, a*choice and a*fake_choice appear identical. However, there is one important difference: unlike the standard*choic…

Thank you both for explaining things

Most of the examples that have the *choices ending on *finish or *ending just for explanation purposes; on most cases you would use *goto to go to any *label that is placed on your file where you want to redirect the player to. Or as was said before, you can use *fake_choice that has it simply conti…

To clarify my comment about beginners: should you be uncertain where and when to use *goto *finish *go_sub etc, ICF is not recommendable (yet)

Meeps, you had a misuse of a *line_break in your sample code. 99% of the time, HG authors misuse *line_break. The only time you should need a *line_break is if you’re trying to show something like lyrics or poetry. (Or if you’re trying to space things out on the stats screen.)

My intend was to have it look like this (in the hypothetical): flavor text. Regular text. Is formatting like that not allowed in general (outside of lyrics and poetry)? As in will I (and maybe others) have to re-do all of what i/we have so far? (see the linked sample code. I use line_break a lot)

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