Reader naming their own Character help! please!

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basically at the beginning of the story I made the reader choose their name and when I want to use it I usually type [NAME]

however when previewing it shows NAME and doesn’t show the true name. Any ideas why?

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I thought the previewer is the one mistaken but it used to show autobot then suddenly switched to name I thought it was a glitch so I checked through my phone still NAME

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When previewing it on your phone, did you pass the part where you have to enter a name? If you skipped ahead, the computer won’t have put a name.

ie. If the “input name” command occurs in episode 1, and you previewed from episode 2, since you skipped the “input name” command, it won’t be filled in.

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nope started from the first episode and in the first episode itself I made it have a scene were the character must say the mc’s name but it kept showing NAME

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Does the display box say “NAME” and did the code look like this
input What is your name? | What is your name? | Done (NAME) ?

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label name_input

input What is your name? | What is your name? | Done (NAME)

if (NAME is “”) {

    NARRATOR
You do need a name...

goto name_input

}else{
continue
}

I used this code for the name

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Hmm, not sure.
@JemU776 can you help?

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1 ) Make sure your character’s display name is NAME
2 ) Test it on the app. So, name them on the app.

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ok let me try

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Didn’t work
I tried to see the coding and since there was no error that I could see tried to read the story from chapter 1 from my phone and the names only worked on the first chapter @JemU776

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In characters

Script Name: YOU
Display Name: NAME

The code for your character being named in your script:

NARR
What’s your name?
input What is your name? | What is your name? | Done (NAME)

YOU
Nice to meet you, I’m [NAME].

*reset your story progress and play from the beginning on the app

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yups did that and it didn’t work on the second episode.
First episode was magic the second disaster

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In the first episode on the app when you named the character it showed but when it moved onto the second episode, their name was something else?

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it wasn’t something else it just returned to NAME

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OK, that’s really strange, from talking to you it seems like everything in your script is fine. It could be a glitch, I’d submit a ticket on it here: https://episodesupport.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
I also have a thread on script + display names if you want to understand them better :smile:

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