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I just hate I can't use underscores in my variable names.

And that theres no easy boolean (though you can use 1 and 0 it's just not the same).

That's the literal value of a boolean yes, but it's states are "true" and "false". Which to mean just sound better.

(Well technically the states are on and off but whatever)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_datatype

Yes those are it's literal values. But when dealing with booleans we say "true" and "false", we don't say "1" and "0".

......So?

I'm not saying the two aren't equal, I'm saying we as humans understand them differently.

If I say the follow:

A - HasApples = True

B - HasApples = 1

I have said the same things, however reading that it's much easier to tell that with the first example I am referring to something that can only be true or false. In the second example it's not so black and white. Since I'm using a number you must rely on the name of the variable to deterimne just what type it is, since I could also be referring to some sort of counter or number based variable.

With A you know that I must mean the player has apples, the amount is irrelevant it just means they have apples.

With B it's not quite as easy, and you may make the mistake of thinking that "HasApples = 1" means the player has 1 apple, rather than meaning the player does have apples.

Of course this can be solved with naming the variable differently, but it doesn't change that fact that true/false is easier to understand than 1/0 as a boolean.

Yep, I never said they weren't equal lol.

Basically what I wanted was a way to have a sort of health meter that measured a person's morality throughout the story that would determine the ending that a person got. I figured it out though and finishing up the prolouge as we speak.