If Statement Problem

[kuzai]

Hey everyone I am having trouble with a certain 'if statement' and I already tried looking around the place for answers but nothing so far has helped.

I don't know what I am doing wrong with it but every time I try to get past this certain point in my game to test it an error keeps popping up saying

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NameError: name 'beg_pillow' is not defined

and I haven't the slightest clue what it's talking about because here is my script for it so far

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label Beg:
    
    $  beg_pillow = True
    
    j "If he wants me to go out looking for his things he's going to have to work for it as well"
    jump done2

And then later on in the game

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mw "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!"
    
    if beg_pillow:
        j "You want it that much?"
        mw "yeaaaaah! I want my pillow! I want my pillow!"

So if anyone knows why it's not working please tell me. And thank you in advance

[xavimat]

It seems that not going to "label Beg" leaves the variable undefined (is there somewhere a "$ beg_pillow = False" line?)
I thinks it's better to initialize all variables at the beginning of the "label start:" to avoid these problems.

[kuzai]

It seems that not going to "label Beg" leaves the variable undefined (is there somewhere a "$ beg_pillow = False" line?)
I thinks it's better to initialize all variables at the beginning of the "label start:" to avoid these problems.

There isn't a $ beg_pillow = False but I have tried putting one in and I still got the same error.

What do you mean by 'initialize all variables at the beginning of the label start:'?

[Googaboga]

When you add a variable the code needs to go through the part where you the defined variable if you want it to be defined later in the game.

When you make a new game there is automatically a label start. Beneath that label you code things to make your first scene, add in dialog, etc. But most people define variables before they actually start making scenes or conversations. So go to the very start of your game and you'll see the "start" label. Directly underneath that before any of the other stuff you add to being your game define all the variables you'll have.

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label start:
     $ beg_pillow = False

#The first scene starts now.
      show bg room
      with emily
      play music whatever
      
      emily "Here we are at the start of the game."

Go on with the game and at the right time change it to true and then continue to the if statement.

Oh and when starting the test be sure to load the game from the beginning. If you jump to the middle by loading a saved file or something like that the game won't have noticed the new variable you defined.

[kuzai]

When you add a variable the code needs to go through the part where you the defined variable if you want it to be defined later in the game.

When you make a new game there is automatically a label start. Beneath that label you code things to make your first scene, add in dialog, etc. But most people define variables before they actually start making scenes or conversations. So go to the very start of your game and you'll see the "start" label. Directly underneath that before any of the other stuff you add to being your game define all the variables you'll have.

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label start:
     $ beg_pillow = False

#The first scene starts now.
      show bg room
      with emily
      play music whatever
      
      emily "Here we are at the start of the game."

Go on with the game and at the right time change it to true and then continue to the if statement.

Oh and when starting the test be sure to load the game from the beginning. If you jump to the middle by loading a saved file or something like that the game won't have noticed the new variable you defined.

oh hey thank you very much that helped =D

[Googaboga]

I'm glad. Does your code work now :]?