Learning ChoiceScript
- Part 1: Playing “My First ChoiceScript Game”
- Part 2: Choice, Finish, and Ending
- Part 3: Scenes
- Part 4: Using Variables
- Part 5: Text Formatting and Images
- Part 6: Fairmath
- Part 7: Inputs
- Part 8: Labels and Subrountines
- Part 9: Meta Commands
- Part 10: Customizing the Stat Screen
ChoiceScript is a scripting language from Choice of Games LLC for creating choose-you-own-adventure games.
Scenes
In Part 2, the commands*finish and *ending were introduced. Depending on if there was another scene or not, *finish would act like *ending. If there was another scene, however, the game would progress forward.
Scenes are listed with the *scene_list command as part of the startup file. Like other commands, it should be on a line by itself and the scenes (other files) should be listed under it and indented on their own lines.
By default, encountering a *finish will mean that a scene transition will take place.
However, there is also a command for forcing a scene transition: *goto_scene.
Using *goto_scene, scenes can be used in multiple places and loops constructed where choices goto other, previous scenes.
In order for either the default *finish or *goto_scene to work, scenes need to exist as files. Those listed as part of *scene_list will be run in order. Others can be accessed through using the *goto_scene command.
GitHib Gist Version:
| You didn't survive the trip! | |
| *ending |
| Finally, we arrived at the house. | |
| Did we knock on the door or try to barge in without warning? | |
| *choice | |
| #Knock on the door | |
| *finish | |
| #Barge in! | |
| We got caught in a trap! | |
| *goto_scene badendings | |
| *title Example | |
| *author Dan Cox | |
| *scene_list | |
| startup | |
| house | |
| Where will we visit? | |
| *choice | |
| #The woods | |
| We went into the woods! | |
| It was a dark and scary place, but with our lantern, we were able to make our way deeper. | |
| Deep in the woods, we came across a river. Did we try to cross it? | |
| *choice | |
| #Cross river | |
| We did not make it across the river and were swept downstream to our doom! | |
| *goto_scene badendings | |
| #Did not cross river. | |
| We didn't bother with the river and made our way along the path deeper and deeper into the woods. | |
| *finish | |
| #The mountains | |
| We went into the mountains | |
| *finish | |
| #The lake | |
| We went to the lake | |
| *finish | |
