so… I have written the first chapter of my game but when playing it, I get this error message:
"startup line 74: expected choice body."
It's to do with this bit of script I have written:
All you know is that you're a:
*choice
#Male
*set gender "male"
*goto First_name_male
#Female
*set gender "female"
*goto_first_name_male
It’s the *set lines that are causing the error but as I am pretty new to choicescript, I don’t know why.
thanks in advance for your help.
Just to be sure, are you indenting properly?
*choice
#Male
*set gender "male"
*goto First_name_male
#Female
*set gender "female"
*goto_first_name_male
(Just so you know, you can use the </> button to post code properly.)
@Addicted do you mind putting < pre > < /pre > without all the spaces and your code between the two >< of the pre’s? This will allow us to properly see how your code is spaced out. As of now I would simply say you need to tab those choices.
Have you created gender in your startup page? and create a male and female for it?
Ah wait I think I see the problem, in your last line *goto_first_name_male that first underscore shouldn’t be there. Should be *goto first_name_male let me know if that solved your problem.
@seabean well you’re fast >.>
@addicted so it should look something like this if you’re doing it properly.
*choice
#Male
*set gender "male"
*goto First_name_male
#Female
*set gender "female"
*goto first_name_male
If this doesn’t work make sure that your variables actually exist, including your labels.
I was about to ask that too. @addicted whenever you’re pasting code on here be sure to select the text you pasted and use the “preformated text” option.
Lol, yep. 
I just noticed that. Assuming your indenting is right, getting rid of the underscore could fix the issue!
I see three possible errors:
Indents
Using #
The space on the female option of the *goto
All you know is that you're a:
*choice
#Male
*set gender "male"
*goto First_name_male
#Female
*set gender "female"
*goto First_name_male
yeah sorry about that. I have used indentation when writing but I didn’t know how to write it on here.
as for the problem though… It’s saying that the problem is to do with the “*set”. I have created male and female labels so I don’t know why it’s saying that that’s an error.
Just to let you know, I haven’t indented the “*set” as when I did at first, it says that the indentation shouldn’t be there; so I removed it.
Well for indentation, it’s as @Arcania and @Lucid show. It always goes
*choice
>#male
>>*set gender "male"
>>*goto first_name_maleAlso, I’d just get rid of the capitalization in “First_name_male”, it can cause issues.
*choice
#Male
*set gender "male"
*goto first_name_male
#Female
*set gender "female"
*goto first_name_female
The *set command needs to be indented along with the *goto as others have shown.
Yeah. it’s worked now. It looks like I wasn’t doing enough indentation. Thanks all for your help.
If the moderators don’t mind I would like to ask another question here. Although it is not to do with this problem, I don’t want to clog up the forum.
How when writing in choice script do you get it to put in “she, her etc” when writing about a female and “him, his etc” when talking about a male? yeah… I know this is pretty basic stuff but although I thought I had it, it turns out I haven’t.
Sorry for being a constant pest… 
*choice
#Male
*set gender "male"
*set hisher "his"
*set heshe "he"
*set himher "him"
*set himherself "himself"
#Female
*set gender "female"
*set hisher "her"
*set heshe "she"
*set himher "her"
*set himherself "herself"
And so on. you can name the variables whatever you like, and add more of them as well. 
These variables will basically work as pronouns and you’d define them in the text as such: ${heshe} can take care of ${himherself}.
If you aren’t familiar with displaying variables, take a look at this page: http://choicescriptdev.wikia.com/wiki/Displaying_variables
We don’t mind, believe me. We’re all about helping out!
*create gender ""
*create his ""
*create him ""
*create he ""
*create mr ""
*create boy ""
Choose your gender
*fake_choice
#Man
*set gender "man"
*set his "his"
*set him "him"
*set he "he"
*set mr "Mr"
*set boy "boy"
#Woman
*set gender "woman"
*set his "hers"
*set him "her"
*set he "she"
*set mr "Ms"
*set boy "girl"
Well, ${he}'s a fine ${boy}.@Addicted I did a tutorial on this A Basic Tutorial on Name, Relationship and Gender Variables
Reaperoa also explains it in his guide.
Hi there,
I have another question to ask you guys…
How do you get choicescript to only allow someone to use a particular item only if they have picked it up earlier in the game?
Here is something I have made up just for the mean time but it still includes everything that I have done in my actual game (including exact indentation).
At the start of the game:
*create item_one ""
*label demonstration_one
You walk in to a room and spot a pen lying on a table what do you do?
#Pick it up
*set item_one "pen"
*goto write_letter
#Leave the pen where it is.
*goto write_letter
*label write_letter
You decide to write a letter. With what writing implimment do you do so?
#pen
*if item_one = "pen"
You pick up the pen and start writing your letter.
*goto next_section
#You don't have a writing implimment to write with.
*goto next_section
And as always, I am ever greatful for the help you provide.
:smile:@Addicted Please follow the previous instructions I gave in order to properly format your code.
That’s in the advanced section of my guide. The short is:
*create has_pen false
*if you get the pen at some point <-- your first choice
*set has_pen true
*choice
*if (has_pen) #Use the pen
You used the pen
*finish
#Other options.
Does that make sense?
(Also, you need to highlight the code before you hit the </> button.)
Yeah thanks. It works