Quest Gamebook: Can I allow players to choose their own name?

Question

As far as I can tell, gamebooks don't rely on any typing input by the players and all the players have to do is click links to go to the next page therefore I don't even know if this is possible at all.

I am super new to writing interactive fiction and my knowledge on script writing is slim to nil and I was wondering if it is possible to allow a player to input their name at the beginning of a gamebook and if so, how would I go about making it happen (like the code/script necessary). And then what kind of script would I need to make their chosen name appear in the game?

Answer 1

this is for Text Adventure version of quest, but it shows well how to do it:

http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/guides/character_creation.html

and here's how to do it in GameBook version of quest:

'Pages' -> 'Page1' -> Page type: [script+text] or [script]

'Pages' -> 'Page1' -> Script: -> (see below)

add new script -> output -> 'print a message' Script -> print [message] Name?

add new script -> output -> 'get input' Script

-> then -> add new script -> variables -> 'set a variable or attribute' Script -> set variable player.alias = [expression] result

add new script -> output -> 'print a message' Script -> print [expression] "Your name is " + player.alias + "."

// I type in: HK
// outputs: Your name is HK.

Comments

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that's strange... as I created a GameBook game to see if it could be done before I posted my asnwer above, and had no hoops to go through (the command~input bar was there and the get input worked fine) ... aside from maybe just setting the Page Type to: [script] or [script+text]. I verified it too, via a 'msg ("Your name is " + player.alias + "."). Also, I did do everything through the GUI~Editor's options, drop down menus, and etc. No in-code writing.

maybe it has to do with the quest version? or maybe I just got a funky, or rather, an awesome~cool, GameBook, laughs.

I've no idea how I happened to not have any hoops... no idea why ...

well, I guess we'll find out if it works okay or not, for the person who made this question, lol.

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err... if there's a hoop with getting rid of the command~input bar, then I've not dealt with addressing that.

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Nah, it was me again. It must have gotten fixed in the most recent version of Quest (either that or it has always been that way, and I'm just insane). Even as I wrote the above, I thought to myself, "I bet this has been fixed, and I'm making a fool of myself..." lol  My apologies.