To allow a player to input a variable, use the '*input_text (stat)' command in the same way you'd use a '*set (stat) (alteration)' command. Example:

Your name is...
*choice
#Preset Name, blah blah blah
*set name 'preset'
*goto your_name_is
#I don't like any of these names.
So, what is your name?
*input_text name
*goto your_name_is
*label your_name_is
Your name is ${Name}!


Thank you so much reaperoa

I think you still have a name problem. An error pops up when I click on the stat screen, one which I also have experienced before.

Reaper told me to be wary of capitalisations so I suppose you should check that?

Well, best to wait for Reaper to reply again.

That is strange i don't get any errors when i click the stat screen. it displays just fine not matter waht name i choose or even if i type in one. so i have no idea what to fix.

This is the error message when I clicked on the stats button at the very first page. Browser is Firefox:

{message:"line 3: Variable \'name\' exists but has no value",fileName:"http://comicstorm.net/choiceScript/web/scene.js",lineNumber:554,stack:"Error(\"line 3: Variable \'name\' exists but has no value\")@:0
getVar(\"name\")@http://comicstorm.net/choiceScript/web/scene.js:554
parseStatChart()@http://comicstorm.net/choiceScript/web/scene.js:1852
stat_chart(\"\")@http://comicstorm.net/choiceScript/web/scene.js:1702
runCommand(\"*stat_chart\")@http://comicstorm.net/choiceScript/web/scene.js:295
printLoop()@http://comicstorm.net/choiceScript/web/scene.js:91
execute()@http://comicstorm.net/choiceScript/web/scene.js:262
()@http://comicstorm.net/choiceScript/web/scene.js:205
safeCall([object Object],(function () {doneLoading();self.execute();}))@http://comicstorm.net/choiceScript/web/util.js:35
([object Event])@http://comicstorm.net/choiceScript/web/scene.js:203
",name:"Error"}

This is the error message when before the first page would even load. Browser is IE9:

Unable to get value of the property ‘setStartingStatsClone’: object is null or undefined.

I'll try using Chrome later, but the constant is that it's a stats thing.

I fixed it, it was because i never set a default value for name because i didn't think people would click the stat button until they had picked name. thanks for the help

Also in the update i just did the mage path is done.

im trying the mages path. But when that demon teaches me to summon and i choose to talk to her, the game crashes. Same when i practice some more. Then i get the Test thingy. but no matter what i choose it crashes.

alright i fixed talking to Saveen and i fixed the test.

:D when im home im gonna test it :D

ye now it works. :) crashes after the test now:p chrome doesnt give me a eeror. Just says an error occured. then the browser closes. im gonna see if i can recreate it in firefox or IE

Edit: Ok got the error.
line 447: bad label endchapter.

i gues that means theres no more story? :p

Got his error after becoming a hunters apprentice
Error: {message:"line 28: bad label workfur1",line:441,expressionBeginOffset:14239,expressionEndOffset:14293,sourceId:144425416,sourceURL:"http://comicstorm.net/choiceScript/web/scene.js"}
Scene: One
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5
Load time: 1317816456442
Persist: whatwg_db

{Leadership:50,sceneName:"One",name:"Christopher",leadership:"0",honesty:"0",strength:5,persuasion:10,intelligence:14,rebellion:"0",magic:6,spiritual:"0",nature:11,metprincess:"false",princessaffection:"0",candance:"no",kingdom2:"Barthonia",job:"none"}

version=UNKNOWN

When you chose a profession its shows a error message!

Great game so far man. But yeah, after picking knight apprentice the game crashes. Btw, are some stats hidden on purpose (i.e. Magic) as it isn't on the stats page.

I'm enjoying the game so far, although I've noticed a lot of spelling errors - I'll write up a list for you when I have time.

As i have said before the only professtion that works is the mage i havn't writen the others so of course it will crash when you select them.

I love the game. The setting , people , and the era. It sometimes crashes put over all pretty darn good. Keep up the good work.

Thanks nack

on another note tonight's update added more onto the book maker path. expect it done by tomorrow and you can look forward to another job path being started.

Okay, Spelling errors. Before I start, please don't get disheartened. You style of writing is very good and the story is engaging. I'm quite certain that a lot of these mistakes are down to the speed that you are typing. With a spell checker and grammar checker, you will have an excellent story! - Here goes:

*First page - choice of name - William is mispelt as Williaham.

*Second page, 'Good luck ${name} should be capitalised, as it is a sentence.

*Next line: You're eight years old... It's an very average day... 'An' should be 'a'.

*Cleaning up vomit... you can't quite tell what this person ate but it defiantly smells faintly of alcohol. 'Defiantly' should be 'definitely'.

*Next sentence: Needs a capital letter.

*Same paragraph: If fact ya that's what you will go do now. Should be 'In', not 'If'. Get rid of 'ya' to make it read better or change it to yes with commas.

*Same paragraph, capital letter at start of sentence again: you back up slowly, ...

*The first choice here says stop moveing - spelling, should be moving.

*Next page where the King asks you to find Queen Silva: The king stares down at you, before speaking. "go tell Queen Silva that the ball is at sunset tonight." He says treating you like a messanger boy. "and Don't mess this up." he says walking off. You stand there for a few moments before the gravity of the situation kicks in. If you don't get this message to the queen and she doesn't show up to the party the king will surely punish you. You head into town enjoying the short rocky path you must take to get there. The palace is just a short distance from town seperated only by a small river. A river so small that the bridge is only there to stop you from getting inconvenced by the waters wet properties. Just into the town is the Sleepy dragon, an inn for rich people. this inn is mostly used by visting royalty and dukes and other nobles. Your almost sure the queen would be here, after all the rest of the towns inns would never be good enough to meet there standards. but how to go about find the queen...

Lots of little errors - corrected here:
The king stares down at you before speaking. "Go tell Queen Silva that the ball is at sunset tonight." He says, treating you like a messenger boy. "And don't mess this up." He says walking off. You stand there for a few moments before the gravity of the situation kicks in. If you don't get this message to the queen and she doesn't show up to the party the king will surely punish you. You head into town enjoying the short rocky path you must take to get there. The palace is just a short distance from town separated only by a small river. A river so small that the bridge is only there to stop you from getting inconvenienced by the waters wet properties. Just into the town is the Sleepy Dragon, an inn for rich people. This inn is mostly used by visting royalty, dukes and other nobles. You're almost sure the queen would be here, after all the rest of the towns inns would never be good enough to meet her standards. Yet how to go about finding the queen...

*For the last choice on the same page, I need Results now,... should be lowercase 'r' in results.

There are many more mistakes like this. I'd recommend putting the script through a spell checker. MSWord is good for that as you can exclude certain words (variables, for example) as being okay. Also, use a grammar checker too - MSWord can also do this.

I'd also like to mention.. When I did a little run through I noticed a lot of 'i's being lower case... But apart from a few mistakes here and there I really liked it :D

Cant wait I am sure by time time your done it will be gold :-D

Alright I fixed all the i's being lower case when they shouldn't have been i made the fixes to the spelling and grammar (thank you by the way)

I don't have a program on my computer with spell check no Microsoft word or anything.
You see i built my computer from scratch and at the time it didn't seem necessary to buy Microsoft word as its very expensive. so i don't have a nice spell checking program. though i do type allot of the story in my internet browser since it has spell check but no grammar check.

By the way this is appleduck28 i just can't sgin in with my twitter account so i have to use my back up.

the next update is almost done.

There is a free alternative to MSOffice: OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/).

(Personally don't know much about it, just stating that there is an alternative if you want to try it out.)

I use open office these days. It's a good alternative to MS Office, but I still miss MS. After 15 years of using it, the shortcut keys, which don't work in Open office, have been engraved into my brain.

(twitter is working again yay :) ) i didn't know open office was free i used that in high school all the time. Man my school was cheap.
i will down load it thanks reaperoa

The update is up now which means the book makers path is done tomorrow i will update with the knights path....or at least half of it.

appleduck28 are you sure the book makers path is done when i try to slay him the game crash or get some kind of error, same with the mage path after i done the test and the demon woman pat me on the back.

The book maker path error is now fixed but again once the path is done the game crashes because there is nothing past that. When Saveen pats on the back once the chapter is done it will go to the chapter ending summery that all the job paths will go into to explain somethings before chapter 2 but as i have said that text isn't there because im not writing till all the job paths are done once they are chapter one will be done and i will write chapter 2. so the mage path is done and yes it is supposed to crash at the end. the error for the book maker at they slaying part was a typo in my varible so thats fixed but one you choose to do that it will crash because the path is ended but not the chapter.

ooh OK looking forward to try out the other paths.

One last quick update tonight
i down loaded open office and spell check my whole game, (took for ever)
There are still some error from words i spelled so wrong spell check was like i have no idea what your try to spell so its not perfect but its better then before.

also guess how long i have been working on this game.

Months?

oh so thats why it crashes :D. Good to know.
Really loving the game mate.

Ok now im getting alot of � in the text. :S

Edit:

In the Bookmaker path.
When you get locked in your room and shout for help the game crashes.
Just letting you know

Thanks txu i fixed the error and sorry scraletgeisha you are wrong i have been working on it exactly two weeks.

You're a fast worker.

That is because i don't have a job and i am home all day. :D But i have trouble concentrating so im also working on a second game which is just as far.

Well, I am largely home all day but I wish I am half as fast as you. I take so long to develop ideas for fleshing stuff out, even if I already have a skeleton.

Well in your defense i do pretty much nothing other then type these games lol. >.> i have'nt left my house in days. (not that i left it much before) After all in between working on this game and the other one i also write and draw two comics plus id do the art for another two. now i just need to make money with one of these things. lol.

Man appleduck, I wish I could work that fast. Anyways, Error/Helping Time! :p

"You memorize this moment, and there movements."
(watching the people dance at the ball) should be
"You memorize this moment, and their movements."

"The night carry�s on much like this, you learn several dances."
(a few lines down) should be
"The night carrys on much like this, and you learn several dances."
(Not sure what that error symbol is for, but there shouldn't be anything there anyways)

Additionally, I'm getting the same error symbol for every apostrophe.

About the scene where you escape from the dungeon with magic. It feels... well, let me put it in my perspective. I'm eight. That is, well, really young. Like, kids still commonly have bed-wetting troubles at that age. Then, I help a wizard and he gives me a non-answer about learning magic, but probably helps me to start down that path. Now, withing 24 hours (hell, probably within 12 from the way it sounds) I go from 'does not know magic' to 'just blast straight through solid rock'. So, um, at ten, why am I not just leveling towns with the power of my mind and taking what I want? Now I don't think you meant for it to sound that powerful, but it does. Either the description needs to be made significantly more subtle, (You use the air to exploit cracks in the ceiling, then dig your way through of dirt to the surface), or there needs to be something telling you that you aren't that powerful all the time (You nearly die from exertion and barely make to a point where you feel safe enough to rest before passing out). (After finishing the game once through, it sounds as though you learn things once as a wizard, when things are really tough, and you don't progressively get better with practice. If that was your intention, that could be clarified, probably by the wizard who speaks to you at the start.)

"Your master hands you a leather bag. "Now ${Name} any wizard will tell you that they cant teach you magic.""
(apprenticing under an elven mage at 14) should be
"Your master hands you a leather bag. "Now ${Name} any wizard will tell you that they can't teach you magic.""
Also, commas around the PC's name aren't necessary, but they are technically supposed to be there.

Actually you forgot the apostrophe on can't a number of times. I'd ctrl+f 'cant' and replace them with 'can't'

Also, the 'stats' are rather non-descriptive. I have no idea what 'nature' was supposed to mean when it popped up before I started apprenticing (and just realized that it isn't actually listed in the stat sheet).

Also, I have no idea why my character would assume demons aren't real. He has already heard about them from the first wizard, and no one has seemed to claim that they aren't real. Maybe where the elven wizards reveals his dealings, the PC can be shocked because he has never met anyone that has made a deal with a demon (as far as he knows).

Also: Clearness problem, when the elf wizard and demon talk back and forth, each time the speaker changes, you need a new paragraph. No exceptions. Even if the first person speaks with the first part of the paragraph, the explicitly dies in the middle, then another person with a distinctly different speech pattern talks about the first person having died at the end of the paragraph. Not just because it is a rule, but because it is necessary to keep a smooth flow to dialog.

"Now enough talk take that bag and go gather plants you think will make a good potion."
should be
"Now, enough talk. Take that bag and go gather plants you think will make a good potion."

Also, the exact nature of the world seems very vague. It's pretty high fantasy, but there are questions like 'how common are elves?' (From what is said about them, I'd guess anywhere from 10~50% of the population). 'how common is magic, and can anyone learn it?' and if anyone can learn it, why doesn't everyone?

The line '"This is not quite how i thought i would you."' makes no sense to me (even in context) (It's from when the elf wizard dies facing the dragon.) Also, he's still got form and everything, so why does the Saveen take over the PC's training anyways?

Im editing the over powered magic scenes but i think you mite need to refresh your cache as i already went threw and fixed the can'ts.

i have added some info into it to give the player a better idea about both how magic works and how likely you are to run into an elf.

i have also made the change to my paragraphing when it comes to dialog.

that last line is a typo created when i auto spell check. "This is not quite how i thought i would look." is what its supposed to say. and saveen explains why she takes you under her wing.

i think i got every thing.

Thanks for your help. and i totally get your point about the magic sound over powered consider it fixed.

@appleduck28 Well, I may have left the game open for more than a few hours before I actually played it. >.< Additionally, shit man, that was quick.

Really damn good cant wait till its finished

Hello again my forum buddys no update today so i can bring you a double update tomorrow that update will include the kight job path and at least half of the bishop path.

For the love of... knock it off appleduck, you're making the rest of us look bad! :p jk. But seriously, how can you write that much?

I am beginning to suspect that appleduck is a cyborg.

Please tell me that the guard path is next.......... [-O<

Lol as I said before being a stay at home girl friend leaves you a lot of spare time. On a Niger note I have been writing the jobs on order so the guard path is the last one then I stat on chapter two which will be fun since your in the military. But is still have plenty of jobs to do before that happens.

I stay home five days a week and all I got to show for is one measely chapter (plus some more that are unseen). But I also have chores to do, stuff to read, Furin Kazan to watch and blocks to break, so maybe that accounts for it.

Or you really are a cyborg.

Well I'm home every day of the week and when I am not I bring a laptop with me like right now I'm out of town visiting my mom but I'm still typing and I do chores but they take an hour max then I draw and then I play computer games then I type until I go to bed. Such is the life of a person who doesn't have a life ( or a cyborg..)

found another bug.

on the wizards path. You are asked to read a book. If you click read most of it. and then go outside to take a nap, the game crashes

Allright that will be fixed in the next update which due to the fact that I'm unable to access my web site mite not be to night bur my boyfriend set up the web site so if I can get him to help the update should be fine.

Whens next update

Tonight if my boy friend helps me get the Internet working if not then tommarow for sure. Also does any one know why my apostrophes don't show up and are instead replaced by error symbols.