Hello, I have been dreaming up an idea for a game to write. I finally got one, but I realized that the reader is going to have an unsatisfactory ending a lot of the time and as such will quickly get bored of replaying the same continent as they search for the true resolution of the game. My solut…

Storing info can be done using *input_number or *input_text. Check out Guenevere’s save mechanic . *input_text var_text *input_number var_num 1 10 The above allows the player to input a number between 1 and 10 inclusive. Where you seek to randomise variable ‘var_num’ between 1 and 10, inclusive, u…

I’d suggest rewriting/redesigning your game. You shouldn’t be giving an unsatisfactory ending. You shouldn’t be providing unsatisfying choices. There shouldn’t be right or wrong choices. You should try to ensure that each path is as fun as the others. Have a read of COG Game Design Guidelines pa…

@Charles_Parkes Thank you for the random number code. I think I will be able to use that for my purpose. Looking at the saving code though, I don’t think it would really accomplish what I require. I probably could make it work, but the number of numbers I’d have to transfer over would get rather…

There’s a few ways to do that. Have you played Paradox Factor? If not I’d suggest playing it, then looking at the code and seeing if its style of repeat ing would work for you. Second method is coding up a save system that tracks previous choices and having the player enter the save password each …

[image] Achievements? ChoiceScript Help That actually almost works today with the *check_achievements command. This command creates temp variables named “choice_achieved_dragonslayer”, which you can use to detect whether the player has previously reached an achievement. Yo…

If possible I’d rather not do a save code, as that would quickly balloon out of hand with the number of things that I need to be able to do. Achievements might be able to work, but the problem is that I need to be able to be able to pass more than booleans over every playthrough. I need to be able…

[image] Baricus: Would I just have to make my game not end? This is what I was going to suggest, and I agree that Paradox Factor is a terrific example of gameplay similar to what you describe. If you want people to keep playing with variations until they reach a satisfactory ending, don’t us…

[image] Baricus: My solution to this was to have changes in the story based on the choices that you made in previous runs. The short story is that you can check achievements from previous playthroughs, although that is entirely unidirectional. As for making an ‘unending’ game. I recommend st…

Thank you @Havenstone for the link and both you and @RETowers for advice. I’ll have to take a look at Pardox Factor and some of its code, because as I hear more and more about it, it does sound like it has very similar gameplay. It will be very interesting to see how the author overcame the proble…

Saving progress through restarts in ChoiceScript

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Charles_Parkes March 12, 2017, 3:10pm 6

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Saving progress through restarts in ChoiceScript

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