Non-threaded

Forums » Advanced Editor Forum » Read Thread

Get help from the experts on variables, scripts, items, and other scary things.

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
Could I use scripting to effect what ending you'll get in the story depending on the choices you choose.

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
If you cant do it without scripting you cant do it with scripting.

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
Thanks for the help.

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
Scripting does it make it more convenieant tho.

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
wait, it will be easier to do what you want to do... for example, if certain links are chosen, then you can store that in a variable, then at the end, total the amount of "good" links that were clicked, and see what ending they have... etc. you could have "bad" links, so basically you could have an ending variable that gets decreased or increased throughout the game, which actually does not need to be done in scripting.... but it CAN be done in scripting... sigh, too much explaining for something that could have been said in one sentence....

Something about scripting...

18 years ago

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
So you're saying it could be down with varibles as well. How would it work out? What if some got an even amount of bad and good links, what would that do? Things like that.

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
Or would I just use one varible?

Something about scripting...

18 years ago

start with a variable at, say 50. then, like the game Fate, if they chose a negative choice, subtract from the 50. if they chose a good choice, add to it. then at teh end if they have a 90 or above, they get a great good ending. however, if they get a 10 or less then they get a great bad ending. make sense?

nate

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
To me it does.

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Thanks, Nate. (not being sarcastic in case you didn't know)

Something about scripting...

18 years ago

Oh, and here's a good example of my score endings.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/21005

It's short, but I think it's funny and it shows what I mean with the score endings.

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
Looks okish...

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
"Okish",  What's that?

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
Okish: Basically ok.

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
Oh, ok. I figured that was what it was. Yeah, it's an okay game (I like it more than okay, but I know what you mean).

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
Did you check the link I left in this thread?

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
Yeah, I did. The moving box was weird, but cool.

Something about scripting...

18 years ago

Yeah dude he told me that thats only the beggining... He's a good guy, I'd send him a PM.

Something about scripting...

18 years ago

Hey, how would I make one link open the ability to use another link in the form of scripting.

Example: I'm going to make some adventure games that play in the form of Snatcher for the sega cd. Anyway, you'll have some choices like, LOOK, THINK. Well, clicking on THINK would open the ability to click on think again and something else would be displayed, this would get you further into the game. How would I do that, I'm willing to learn some scripting to do something like this. Thanks.

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
can you please clarify? what exactly do you want to do? do you mean LOOk and THINK are skills, choices, what? explain in detail please and i will teach you how to do what you want to do.. :)

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
Never played any of those type of games from Japan huh? Great, they are choices, and they open up other choices. The idea is to click different choices that push the game forward, I can't really explain it much more.

Something about scripting...

18 years ago
umm.. seem kinda boring?