I know it’s simple but sometimes people do struggle with this. I’m going to use an example using two options within a choice.
Here I go, using an example talking about which band is your favorite:
NARR
So what’s your favorite band?
choice
“My Chemical Romance”{
YOU
It’s MCR.
}“Motionless in White”{
YOU
It’s MIW.
}
NARR
Cool!
To break it down =
So what you first do is include dialogue before a choice. You need to have a character think/say something or have the narrator speak before you write a choice. So if you include something like this:
label rock_music
choice
“Bla bla bla”{
You would get an error because before the word choice you do NOT have anyone speaking/thinking something or the NARR (short for NARRATOR) talking. If you want to include a label, like in a dressing game, you need to put the label before the CHAR thinks/says something like this:
label dress_goth
CHAR
So what should I wear?
Anyways back to the example above.
First, you open with this:
choice
“My Chemical Romance”{
Notice how there’s no } or { in front of My Chemical Romance in the beginning. That’s how you begin a choice. You write the first option underneath (no seriously, you write it underneath, don’t skip a line when doing this). Add " " around the option and end the first option with a {
Then you would write your scene for the MCR option.
Moving onto the second option:
}“Motionless in White”{
You’d add a } in front of the second option, add " " around the option and end it on a {
Then you’d write the scene underneath.
At the end of the MIW scene, you’d include a } meaning the choice is complete and your back to the main storyline (in this two option choice).
What if you want a three choice option?
It would like this:
NARR
So what’s your favorite band?
choice
“My Chemical Romance”{
YOU
It’s MCR.
}“Motionless in White”{
YOU
It’s MIW.
}“Get Scared”{
YOU
It’s Get Scared.
}
NARR
Cool!
Four options?
NARR
So what’s your favorite band?
choice
“My Chemical Romance”{
YOU
It’s MCR.
}“Motionless in White”{
YOU
It’s MIW.
}“Get Scared”{
YOU
It’s Get Scared.
}“Falling in Reverse”{
YOU
It’s Falling in Reverse.
}
NARR
Cool!
…And so on! Basically it’s a pattern. So if you added a fifth option saying something like “Ice Nine Kills” you’d follow this simple pattern.
Yes, you can split options/choices into pages, but that is a bit more complex and requires you to understand gotos as well as labels therefore I won’t include it in this tutorial.
One more thing to note!
When you’re writing a option, it can be written like this:
}“Palaye Royale”{
OR
}
“Palaye Royale”{
BUT this is INCORRECT:
}
“Palaye Royale”{
This is because you are SKIPPING a line which is a big no no!
