Money??? please give advice

[Guest]

I am working on a game wherein I'd like there to be a money system of some sort. I can see how I could use variables as money (and add or subtract it as needed), but how could I show the value of the variables to the player? Are there other ways to have money in a game? Any advice would be appreciated.

[DaFool]

Taken directly from my own game:

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label purchasemiller:
    menu:
        "Buy Pork (50 Gold)":
            if (gold >= 50):
                play sound("change.ogg")
                kneutral "Some ham and sausages please."
                miller "Here you go."
                $ yieldpork += 1
                $ gold -= 50
            else:
                kneutral "Oh, I do not have enough money anymore for this item."
            jump purchasemiller
        "Buy Bread (20 Gold)":
            if (gold >=20):
                play sound("change.ogg")
                kneutral "Some bread please."
                miller "Right away, madam."
                $ yieldbread += 1
                $ gold -= 20
            else:
                kneutral "Oh, I do not have enough money anymore for this item."
            jump purchasemiller
        "Buy Cheese (35 Gold)":
            if (gold >= 35):
                play sound("change.ogg")
                kneutral "I would like some cheese."
                miller "Very well."
                $ yieldcheese += 1
                $ gold -=35
            else:
                kneutral "Oh, I do not have enough money anymore for this item."
            jump purchasemiller
        "Check Wallet.":
            kneutral "It looks like I have %(gold)d Gold."
            jump purchasemiller
        "Stop Purchasing.":
            ksmile "I better leave now before I run out of money."
    return

Note the line which outputs the value of gold: "%(gold)d"

Ideally, you would have an inventory system also, but I'm not at a level where I'm willing make one.

[Showsni]

Do you mean you want the amount of money constantly shown, at the top or something? (Like, say, Zelda.)

[Guest]

This isn't the same guest that asked the question, but I would like to know how to get the total money up at the top. I tried "%(gold)d" in an ui.frame at the top, but it doesn't show the amount, it just shows "%(gold)d."

[J13]

I don't know if this is what you're looking for, i'm using it for an in game clock in the game i'm working on, but this is what it'd look like if i wanted to do the same for money

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init:
    $ text = 'MONEY' 
    $ curren = '$'
    $ money = 537

init python:
    show_money = True
    def stats_overlay():
        if not show_money:
            return
        stats_frame('Time', xalign=1.0, yalign=0.0)        
    config.overlay_functions.append(stats_overlay) 
    def stats_frame(name, **properties):
        ui.frame(xfill=False, yminimum=None, **properties)
        ui.hbox()
        ui.vbox()
        ui.text('%s' % (text), xalign=0.0, size=20) 
        ui.text('%s%02d' % (curren,money), xalign=0.0, size=25) 
        ui.close()
        ui.close()

label start:
    'Start'
    $ money += 20    
    'Adding more money'
    $ show_money = False
    'Making the money displayable dissapear'
    $ show_money = True
    'And reappear'
    'End'

Hope that helps some

[Criptych]

This isn't the same guest that asked the question, but I would like to know how to get the total money up at the top. I tried "%(gold)d" in an ui.frame at the top, but it doesn't show the amount, it just shows "%(gold)d."

That's because python statements don't automatically interpolate variables. Note in J13's code:

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        ui.text('%s%02d' % (curren,money), xalign=0.0, size=25)

The "% (curren, money)" clause inserts the values into the string.

[Guest]

This is the original guest, heh.

Thank you so much for your advice! I'm implementing the scripts right now. I really appreciate your help!! <3

[themocaw]

That's actually really great. I'm planning on using a temporary script like this as a debug tool for keeping track of the major emotional variables: I know there's probably some developer tool that lets us do that, but this feels more elegant.

[Criptych]

That's actually really great. I'm planning on using a temporary script like this as a debug tool for keeping track of the major emotional variables: I know there's probably some developer tool that lets us do that, but this feels more elegant.

Why make it "temporary"? That could be the developer tool.

[themocaw]

That's actually really great. I'm planning on using a temporary script like this as a debug tool for keeping track of the major emotional variables: I know there's probably some developer tool that lets us do that, but this feels more elegant.

Why make it "temporary"? That could be the developer tool.

I mean temporary as in, "Damned if I'm going to let the script stay in there for the final distribution, you young punks". Although, it might make a nice unlockable. Hmmm. . .

[Criptych]

I mean temporary as in, "Damned if I'm going to let the script stay in there for the final distribution, you young punks".

Point taken.

[Free Time Machine]

Hey, this is awesome as a debug tool. I tried a similar thing debugging with a ui bar, but I feel a digit value is much more useful for any game with hidden stats. Let me suggest the following changes/comments to the first init block to make it easier for new people to get...

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init:
    $ statlabel = 'STRING'
    # Replace 'STRING' with an appropriate label for the statistic, eg 'MONEY'
    $ statprefix = 'STRING'
    # Replace 'STRING' with an appropriate prefix for the statistic, eg '$' or '' for none
    $ statvalue = 0

[themocaw]

This works EXTREMELY well.

[UselessCoder]

Hi everybody!

I've found this topic while trying to tweak my money displayable.

I think that part of this code might as well work for me, but I'm so new to renpy I might be wrong. wthout a doubt my coding is, since it doesn't work anyway.

Let me first tell you how my money variable works, it's pretty basic:

in scripts.rpy:

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init:
   $ money = 99999
label start:
    show screen money

in screens.rpy

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screen money:
    imagebutton: # MONEY.
        xpos 1230
        ypos 39
        focus_mask None 
        xanchor "center"
        yanchor "center"
        idle "icons/money.png"    
    hbox:
        spacing 10 xpos 1150 ypos 25        
        text "{color=#FFFFFF}{size=-3} $ [money]{/size}{/color}"

Now. What I tried to do was adding the variables:

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   $ thousands= 'K'
   $ millions= 'M'

to the script file because, for the displaying sake, I want the total amount of money to be as readable as possibile as it grows bigger and I don't want ridicolously huge amounts of money spanning from one side of my screen to the other.

So what I tried to do was using something like this:

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('%s%02d' % (money, thousands)
('%s%02d' % (money, millions)

but I can't trigger them through something like:

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if (money > 99999)
if (money > 999999)

..."Then put thousand at the end of the amount" or "Then put millions at the end of the amount" , accordingly.

What should I do?

Thanks!

[gas]

You already created a topic for that.