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Posted: **Mon Dec 22, 2014 8:08 pm**

Hello everyone. I've just signed up to the website to finally ask a question.

I'm thinking of making a video game character quiz where you get to choose from a number of questions and the game comes up with a result for you based on your decisions. I wonder if people do this with Ren'py?
https://www.playbuzz.com/jonb10/which-norse-god-are-you

I need three things: the characters, the questions and a results table.

I have the characters.

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init:
    $ mage = 0
    $ hunter = 0
    $ guardian = 0
    $ assassin = 0
    $ warrior = 0

I have the questions.

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    menu:
        "Mage":
            $ mage += 1
        "Hunter":
            $ hunter += 1
        "Guardian":
            $ guardian += 1
        "Assassin":
            $ assassin += 1
        "Warrior":
            $ warrior += 1

What I can't seem to figure out is how to create a results table where the character with the highest number gets chosen. If I set lots of them at a time, it only selects the one closest to the top and disregards the rest of the characters. For example, if I had the most points in hunter but my mage has more points than guardians, it will jump to mage. How do I counter this?

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    if mage > hunter:
        jump mage
        
    if mage > guardian:
        jump mage
        
    if mage > assassin:
        jump mage
        
    if mage > warrior:
        jump mage
        
    if hunter > mage:
        jump hunter

My coding experience is extremely insufficient. If I had to try to write it without knowing what code it needed, it would probably look something like this:

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    if mage > hunter,guardian,assassin,warrior:
        jump mage

This doesn't seem to work though. I thank you in advance.

Posted: **Mon Dec 22, 2014 9:14 pm**

http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... =8&t=29592

Posted: **Wed Dec 24, 2014 12:42 am**

In case someone need a solution I made a quick one.

So I used what is the easiest to expand in my personal opinion.

Why I am doing it like this?
I don't like having long "if" statement to check everything.
I personally like to have a code that can be changed or improved over time so I adapted the data structure for it. With it it's possible to add new scores during the game or even remove some without having to change the algorithm to find the maximum.

Data structure:
You can easily add more fields in the dictionary in your code or in the initialisation

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define classes = {'mage': 0,'hunter': 0,'guardian': 0,'assassin': 0, 'warrior': 0}

python functions:
Simply find the highest value and return the class name, not the value itself.

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init python:

    def highestScore(classes):
        max = 0
        res = ""
        for char in classes:
            if max < classes[char]:
                res = char
                max = classes[char]
        return res

How to change the value of a score :
Increase by 1:

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$ classes['mage'] += 1

Change value:

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$ classes['mage'] = 10

Getting and testing the result:

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    $ res = highestScore(classes)
    if res == 'mage':
        jump mage
    if res == 'hunter':
        jump hunter
    if res == 'guardian':
        jump guardian
    if res == 'assassin':
        jump assassin
    if res == 'warrior':
        jump warrior
    "[res] : empty" #To test if no max is found

If you want to display a value:

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    $ nb = classes['mage']
    "mage : [nb]"

Posted: **Wed Dec 24, 2014 7:16 pm**

Breci wrote:

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init python:

    def highestScore(classes):
        max = 0
        res = ""
        for char in classes:
            if max < classes[char]:
                res = char
                max = classes[char]
        return res

Have you thought about how to deal with ties? AFAIK, dictionaries are unordered, so if there were ties (i.e. both mage and hunter scored 3, for example) this would return the first key/value pair evaluated at random. Maybe you're fine with that, but it seems like something that should be pointed out.

Posted: **Wed Dec 24, 2014 8:45 pm**

The only reference he provided is a basic online quizz. I don't think they are taking care about it.
Also, I'm based on his own code where he don't say that he try to handle it and don't have any line about it.

So yeah I assumed he does not care about it.

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