Make a prompt box like Mettaton's essay

[Rekoija]

If you've played Undertale and fought against Mettaton, at some point in his battle there'll be this thing where the player has to type in stuff.
If you write "has pretty legs" he will respond to the "leg" part of it with something like "Yes, leg is the correct answer."

Is it possible to make something like this in Renpy?

I've tried to look through it, but the closest I've found to the function is when you let the player name themself, and unfortunately I'm not good enough at coding to come up with anything from there.

here's a less vague description of what I want:

N1 has a secret
The Player (pc) has to guess their secret.
Pc will write in their guess
"N1 is secretly a uh... fish person, or something."

we might have a list of words for the secret, like
"merfolk"
"fish person"
"merman"
"mermaid"

since the player wrote "fish person" they guessed correctly!

i'd also like for the player to have a limited amount of letters they can write, so they can't just say every single word that exists.

thank you for reading my post
and thank you in advance for your help, should you have any!

[isobellesophia]

Well, im pretty sure you were talking about if statements.

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label user:
    $ user_input = renpy.input(prompt = "Type anything! If you want to leave, say 'Later or later' Or if you want to go places, type 'Lets go somewhere'.", allow="1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ /.,'?!")

    $ user_input=user_input.lower().strip()

    if user_input == "": #This will happen if there's no input.

        "Asnwer please?"

        jump user

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if user_input in ['merfolk']:
    "Random answer"
    jump user
    
    if user_input in ['fish person']:
    "CORRECT!!!"
    jump user
    
    if user_input in ['merman']:
    "Random answer"
    jump user
    
    if user_input in ['mermaid']:
    "Random answer"
    jump user

[Rekoija]

Well, im pretty sure you were talking about if statements.


Yep, just didn't know how to write them, haha.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it


One problem though... what if the person types
"he's a fish person or something"
then it's wrong because you wrote "he's a" "or something" in front and after
is it possible for renpy to ignore the irrelevant words?

[isobellesophia]

You can add or change the sentence.

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if user_input in ['fish person', 'he's a fish person or something', 'he is a fish!']: