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.

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Customizing the Stat Screen

When playing a ChoiceScript game, there is a button label “Show Stats” that shows values associated with the game. This “stat screen” has an exclusive command not available in other files: *stat_chart.

Like other scenes, the Stat screen allows for using text formatting and other styling. However, the use of the *stat_screen is limited to three types of value displays: percent, text, and opposed_pairs.

Percent

When used with the *stat_chart command, percent shows the value as a percentage with a default horizontal bar.

Text

When used with the *stat_chart command, text shows the value as a string, either showing the number, characters, or other combinations of the two.

Opposed Pairs

The command *opposed_pairs computes a total percentage based on the values of two values and creates a horizontal bar with both values shown within it.

Customizing

While values can be used with the different types of percent, text, and opposed_pairs, labels can also be given to the variables.

The label for the values follows after the value and type to show.

Value Opposed to Itself

When written with a single value, the opposed_pair type can also show percentages with values for its percentage up to a value of 100.

Multiple uses of *stat_chart

The command *stat_chart can be used multiple times on the Stat screen, allowing for labels for sections or additional descriptions between statistic sections.