Twine/Sugarcube 2 Template

Also, i dont know how to make character customization actually appear throughout the game/story.

Hi, I'm not the creator but I hope you don't mind me answering because I remember this tripped me up early in development too, but it's surprisingly simple! Using your example, the format you'd need is this:

[["I am not crying," you say, even tempered. You want to, though!|2][$stoic = true]]

Whatever you put in that second set of brackets inside the choice will only execute when someone selects it. You can also have multiple variables in those brackets, just separate them with a comma. For instance if you wanted to like, let someone change their hair mid-game you could have something like

[["It's perfect!"|2][$hair = "straight", $hairlength = "short", $haircolor = "blue"]]

Definitely not a dumb or silly question! I'm sorry it took me forever to respond, but Charlie's answer is perfect! Something that helped me a lot when I started learning how to code in twine was this post (which is all about setting stats): https://idrellegames.tumblr.com/post/665163387870822400/hi-so-im-learning-twinesugarcube-and-ive-been

Hope that helps and let me know if you still have any trouble!

Oh my gosh, I'm sorry it's taken me so long to respond to this! And I'm so glad you're liking the template☺️ I was able to replicate the autosave error aaaand I'm not sure yet why it's happening, so I'm working on figuring that out now. Will leave another comment on here (hopefully) tomorrow when I work it all out!

Thank you so much, Charlie!! That absolutely makes my day, and it seriously blows my mind to see IF authors using it😊 Please let me know if you make a game with it, I'd love to see it!

Hi there! Good question. The "noreturn" flag works in conjunction with the "$return" function to prevent loops. So for example, when you visit the "stats" page, then click the "styles" page from the menu right after, pressing the "return" button will bring you all the way back to the story (instead of back to the "stats" page even though that was the last page you were on). The navigation arrow doesn't use the return function - it just goes back to the previous page, which is great...but I figured if there's a chance someone doesn't want to keep the navigation arrow (I don't like having a back button in my own game, for example), I'd better cover the bases with a proper "return" button for the menu pages. Thanks for downloading!

Thank you so much!! That's a good idea, and there are a couple things you could do. You could 1) opt to keep the bottom bar open at all times (instead of having it open on hover) and keep your real-time stats down there instead of in a separate stats page. To do that, you would need to adjust the footer height in the stylesheet - right now it's at 10% so just change that to whatever height you want and erase the .footer:hover section.  Or 2) you could add in a whole new section altogether to store the stats in, but that'll take a lot more coding to make work. Off the top of my head, I'm thinking you could add a new div id to the StoryInterface passage like this:

You'll need to add a new passage to store your stats (so in my example the new passage would be titled static-stats), and you'll need to add styling for the new div in the stylesheet.

#static-stats {
  font-family: var(--sansserif);
  font-size: 80%;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  letter-spacing: .2em;
  line-height: 1.5;
  position: absolute;
  right: 0;
}

Totally depends on how you want the stats to look, but this is what I put for the example and it ends up looking like this:

You'd have to play around with mobile formatting though since the mobile version doesn't leave room for stats on the side like this. Maybe something like:

top: 10%;
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%);

This would put the stats right in the middle above the passage, but it does interfere with the title a bit (and also just doesn't look great). But hopefully this is a good starting point for you to make it work!!

Your game looks wonderful, I may have to check out Harlowe myself! But thank you, I can't wait to see what you create with it:)