This may sound like a dumb question, but I went onto the “make your own game” section of the main site and I downloaded the GitHub file. Now I have the folder and everything, where do I go to start making my game? Thanks!

http://choicescriptdev.wikia.com/wiki/ChoiceScript_Wiki has lots of good advice.

And in the folder you downloaded, have a look in web -> mygame -> scenes. That’s where startup.txt and the other files where you write your game live.

I found this very helpful [image] Introduction to ChoiceScript ChoiceScript is a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice games (MCGs) like Choice of the Dragon. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programm… A…

You may also want to get something like notepad++. A normal text editor isn’t very good for programming in choicescript.

@OdicHastings A text editor is good. Text editors just use raw text, like Notepad, Notepad++. You’ve no fancy formatting, fonts etc. Word processors like Microsoft Word, Wordpad , that are bad, especially when they like changing your quotation marks to the curly ones.

I actually meant notepad specifically when I said ‘normal text editor’. That said, I can agree that it’s far better than Word. Still, I really didn’t like working with it when I tried. I thought notepad++ was leagues ahead. Just having numbered lines alone was a huge boon, plus there’s fun little e…

And not forgetting @CJW ’s Syntax Highlighter for Notepad++, which is very helpful: [image] Notepad++ Syntax Highlighter Like other text editors, Notepad++ (which is recommended by the basic tutorial) uses a system called Syntax Highlighting which helps in coding by visually identifying di…

Huh… I’ve never heard of this syntax highlighter. I’ll have to look it up. Thanks for providing the link.

Where do I go to start programming ChoiceScript?

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ballmot March 13, 2015, 2:26pm 11

You should check out this Amazing Tool for beginners.

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