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That money system add on is useful shortcut, but a coin system (or similar) by itself isn't difficult to set up and doing so forces the learning of the basics of variables and tasks in the process. Not getting the sense strajepi has quite grasped the fundamental concepts yet, hence the continued con...

I'm at work so can't really give a detailed answer right now, but you have to use your task actions and restrictions for this, just like anything else.

I doubt I'm going to make it as a few hours tomorrow evening are all the time I'm going to get to work on it again.

I actually don't mind though, since I have this sudden urge to alter the plot based on a dream I had last night, and it'll take time to do that right.

Sorry I have another question... I would like to add bandaids in my game. I would like them to be buyable and foundable in many locations. Do I have to create one item per location ? When I choose dynamic and then the initial location, it seems that I can only choose one location... Thanks a lot !!...

Is it also how you make a health bar ? With variables ? Right. A variable just stores a number or string of text that you can have the game alter or react to at any time. A variable called health can display the number hit points, or even visibly a row of asterisks or something representing them.

You can also use variables for consumable items or things you buy multiples of, like ammo or healing potions. Most things can work the same way a coin system does, there's not much difference between holding an object called an apple and the game checking that the apple variable is 1. Oh good, you'...

Also I was wondering : If my story begins in a house, is there any alternative for the directions North, South, West and East ? I mean it is kind of weird to say "Go West in the bathroom"... I thought about In and Out but if there are other directions available, this will not work. It's weird from ...

I'm sure there's multiple ways to do this, but I would just have the items sitting in Hidden, then when the player goes to the shop and looks at the menu or display case or whatever, they type 'buy [whatever]', which triggers a task that subtracts that amount and moves the item to their inventory wi...

http://chooseyourstory.com/forums/creative-corner/message/28332 Just finished the first session, but still quite early in the game if anyone wants to catch up or follow along. Anyone is welcome to join in with the voting too of course, next session will probably be Thursday night. We are playing Hec...

All you need is a variable for the amount of coins the player has, than have task actions add or subtract from it as needed.

With restrictions in place to make sure they actually have enough for the item they're purchasing.

There's a big Spanish speaking population involved with the Ectocomp every year, and they have their own Discord and forum. Not sure if any of them are familiar with Adrift, but you might be able to find others interested in helping with the project that way. https://itch.io/jam/ectocomp-2020 Scroll...

Participants have three weeks (that is until Sunday April 25 ... No matter which timezone you are in.) to complete and send their game, blorb or taf file to my official Adrift Email address: Drifting(dot)Prune AT mail(dot)com This is what I've been going by as it was the most recent post on the dea...

What are the rest of us doing wrong? :wink: I can't remember what the font and color scheme on that game looked like, but I've seen a few where not having eyes would be a definite benefit... :whistle: Lots of blind players in IF communities though, I've known a few. And they're basically the only g...

The biggest negative point for me has always been the--in 2021, just a LITTLE unreasonable--hurdles that new players are expected to clear before actually playing, and the seeming disinterest in ever fixing them. Well that and the lack of communication. Campbell did ask once about the problems with ...

Honestly I really prefer not to deal with anything based on real life time passage in games like these.