(SOLVED!) Resetting Your Point System Mid-game

[Wudgeous]

Hi all! I'm a self-taught going-on-intermediate coder and I'm rather at my wit's end -- I've searched the documentation and forums to no avail. I could be looking in the wrong places or using the wrong search terms - in which case, some guidance would be deeply appreciated.


Context
In my game, I'm using the basic point-based system that works as such:

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label start:
    $ boy1_points = 5
    $ boy2_points = 5
    $ boy3_points = 5
    $ boy4_points = 5
    $ girl1_points = 5
    $ girl2_points = 5
    

As the game progresses, the character points(/affection) will increase/decrease. For example:

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"I give girl2 some flowers."
$ girl2_points += 1

My Dilemma is This:
During periodic checkpoints in the game, I would like to reset all these character affection points to 0. Obviously, I can manually put in

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$ boy1_points = 0
$ boy2_points = 0
$ boy3_points = 0
$ boy4_points = 0... (and so on)

...every single time. But seems terribly inefficient, considering there are a handful of characters to reset. :\


One of my Half-Baked Attempts at a Solution is This:
I tried the following (function? action?) for starters - not sure if I've just got the wrong syntax or if I'm even on the right track;

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init python:
	def resetallPoints():
		boy1_points = 0
		boy2_points = 0
		boy3_points = 0
		boy4_points = 0
		girl1_points = 0
		girl2_points = 0
      
label start:            
	$ boy1_points = 5
	$ girl1_points = 2
	
	girl1 "Right now, you have [boy1_points] points with boy1 and [girl1_points] points with me."
	girl1 "Let's go ahead and reset that..."
	$ resetallPoints
	girl1 "Now we have [boy1_points] and [girl1_points]!"

...but obviously running this just spat out an error. Thoughts? Alternatives? Links? Examples? I'll love you forever.

[hell_oh_world]

Hi all! I'm a self-taught going-on-intermediate coder and I'm rather at my wit's end -- I've searched the documentation and forums to no avail. I could be looking in the wrong places or using the wrong search terms - in which case, some guidance would be deeply appreciated.


Context
In my game, I'm using the basic point-based system that works as such:

Code: Select all

label start:
    $ boy1_points = 5
    $ boy2_points = 5
    $ boy3_points = 5
    $ boy4_points = 5
    $ girl1_points = 5
    $ girl2_points = 5
    

As the game progresses, the character points(/affection) will increase/decrease. For example:

Code: Select all

"I give girl2 some flowers."
$ girl2_points += 1

My Dilemma is This:
During periodic checkpoints in the game, I would like to reset all these character affection points to 0. Obviously, I can manually put in

Code: Select all

$ boy1_points = 0
$ boy2_points = 0
$ boy3_points = 0
$ boy4_points = 0... (and so on)

...every single time. But seems terribly inefficient, considering there are a handful of characters to reset. :\


One of my Half-Baked Attempts at a Solution is This:
I tried the following (function? action?) for starters - not sure if I've just got the wrong syntax or if I'm even on the right track;

Code: Select all

init python:
	def resetallPoints():
		boy1_points = 0
		boy2_points = 0
		boy3_points = 0
		boy4_points = 0
		girl1_points = 0
		girl2_points = 0
      
label start:            
	$ boy1_points = 5
	$ girl1_points = 2
	
	girl1 "Right now, you have [boy1_points] points with boy1 and [girl1_points] points with me."
	girl1 "Let's go ahead and reset that..."
	$ resetallPoints
	girl1 "Now we have [boy1_points] and [girl1_points]!"

...but obviously running this just spat out an error. Thoughts? Alternatives? Links? Examples? I'll love you forever.

Just put parentheses on the function.
Also just to be sure, use namespace if you're using variables inside an init block.

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default boy1_points = 0
## and so on...
init python:
	def resetallPoints():
		store.boy1_points = 0
		store.boy2_points = 0
		store.boy3_points = 0
		store.boy4_points = 0
		store.girl1_points = 0
		store.girl2_points = 0
		## and so on...
      
label start:            
	$ boy1_points = 5
	$ girl1_points = 2
	
	girl1 "Right now, you have [boy1_points] points with boy1 and [girl1_points] points with me."
	girl1 "Let's go ahead and reset that..."
	$ resetallPoints() ## Parentheses here.
	girl1 "Now we have [boy1_points] and [girl1_points]!"

[Wudgeous]

It works!! And I learned something!

Thank you Toby Maguire! <3



Edit: to reiterate to my future self: "store.boy1_points " is the namespace.