Hi there! So, I had a question about how the points system works when there is one love interest but you can choose which gender they’re going to be. Right now I’m working on a story where the reader can choose if they want their main love interest to be a woman or a man and throughout the story, you can make choices that affect the type of relationship you can have with them. Either in a negative or positive way, but I’m just wondering If I have to create a new character, ex. (LOVE INTEREST MALE) and (LOVE INTEREST FEMALE) or just keep it as (LOVE INTEREST) regardless of their gender if that makes sense.
Btw sorry this is so long, I’m just confused.
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I’m not sure if this is what you mean, but to have a LI gender choice, you use gains like this:
label li_choice
NARR
What gender is your LI?
choice
“A boy” {
goto li_boy
}“A girl” {
goto li_girl
}
label li_boy
NARR
Are you sure you want your LI to be a boy?
choice
“Yes” {
gain boy_li
goto start_chapter
}“No” {
goto li_choice
}
label li_girl
NARR
Are you sure you want your LI to be a girl?
choice
“Yes” {
gain girl_li
goto start_chapter
“No” {
goto li_choice
}
label start_chapter
if (girl_li) {
#girl LI story line goes here
}else {
#boy LI story line goes here
}
As for the points, you just have to make two characters named GOOD and BAD (or whatever you want to name them). Every time there’s a choice you want a choice to give points, you would just use @GOOD +1/@GOOD -1 or @BAD +1/@BAD -1. For example:
NARR
How do you want to react?
choice
“Be nice” {
#whatever you want here
@GOOD +1
@BAD -1
}“Be mean” {
#whatever you want here
@BAD +1
@GOOD -1
}
Then just use if/else to make them matter. I hope this helped (:
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Okay but can I use @GOOD and @BAD for multiple characters? Also I’m just going to put in what my code looks like so that it’ll kinda make sense, hopefully.
This is the amount of points you can have in my second episode with the main Male or Female love interest:
} “Points with Charlie” {
if (CHARLIE RELATIONSHIP = 2) {
NARRATOR
You have 2 points with Charlie.
} elif (CHARLIE RELATIONSHIP = -2) {
NARRATOR
You have -2 points with Charlie.
} elif (CHARLIE RELATIONSHIP = 0) {
NARRATOR
You have 0 points with Charlie.
Now my question is what if you were more positive with the female Charlie than with the male Charlie, would the outcome be different and if so should I just make a new character named (FEMALE CHARLIE RELATIONSHIP) and (MALE CHARLIE RELATIONSHIP) because right now I only have a character named (CHARLIE RELATIONSHIP)
Unless they reader will have contact with both female and male charlie, there’s no need for 2 characters. If the reader would interact with both of them, then yes, you would need another character.