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Can I just make a basic game without any variables etc? Just basic scripting. I know I want it to be a long game, kind of like Dead Man Walking( Zombie Survival)

You want to make a game without variables, but with scripting?

Can I not do scripting without going advanced?

If you mean if you can do simple scripting, the answer is yes. 

Scripting needs using variables. But scripting is the complicated part. What have you got against variables?

^I nominate the post above mine as 'Best Post of this Thread'

@MadBrad200

Scripting is nothing more than a way to manipulate variables. I can help you with variable usage, if you need me to.

Variables are the easy part, once you realize how to use them. I'll gladly help you if you want.

lol, do you know what scripting means?

I don't think he realizes that DMW was created with an assload of variable work. It is also possible that he is confusing scripting with writing.

I don't want to add numbers or scoring to the game I just want the players to make a choice and whatever choice they make takes them to a different page. I would like to be able to either have a list of character names the people can choose from of have them make their own name etc.

The first part and the second part about having a list of character names, you can do without scripting, but the last part you do need scripting to accomplish. 

How exactly do I do that? Complete newbie here and I know nothing about scripting or making a game but I can say this sounds easier than the "Choice of Games" website.

You would need to learn about variables, and basic scripting. Here's a list of articles with more details.

http://chooseyourstory.com/help/

Yeah not smart here I have already looked at that and don't understand it. If only I could write the story and have someone do the scripting for me,lol

Hmmm. It's not going to work like that. If you're willing to learn scripting, I can offer to teach you the basics, but that all I'm going to offer. If you want someone else to do it for you, then sorry, but I'm not interested. 

No I was saying lol as in Laugh Out Loud wouldn't that be funny. I like to accomplish my own things when it comes to writing a story, I have sort of figured out how to add a link but all this other stuff seems like a completely different language.

Well, whenever you have a specific question, just post in the Advance Editor's section, and there will be more the enough people to help you with your problem. 

You'd need to use variables if you wanted the name to come up again elsewhere in the story.

If what you want is to have the reader make choices, and each choice takes them to a new page, you don't need variables for that.  You can write a story like Eternal or Necromancer without variables.

A story like dead man walking needs a lot of variables and scripting. If you want the story to "remember" the choices the player has made, you need variables.

to your example: you can give the reader a choice if names, but without variables, you'd have to write a separate path for each name.