Player-name Input

[18point6y]

Hello, I just created an account here and I would like to ask a (probably) very basic question.

I wanna know how to let the player chose his/her name.

I have tried to search all over and I could only find codes like the following:

Code:
define e = Character("[name]")

# The game starts here.
label start:
$ name = renpy.input("What's your name?")
$ name = name.strip()
e"Hello! I'm [name]!"

Which does not work. This code is even in the Ren'Py page itself (that is outdated).

Could someone please help me with that? Thanks in advance.

[kivik]

Can you clarify what you mean when you say it doesn't work?

The code above makes character e's name whatever the player inputs when displayed. So we need to know what makes you say that it doesn't - e.g. is your player a different character? Can you show us your code?

[erickcire95]

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define e = Character("[name]")

# The game starts here.
label start:
$ name = Character(renpy.input("What's your name?"))
e"Hello! I'm [name]!"

you are missing the character part when you ask for input

[Imperf3kt]

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define e = Character("[name]")

# The game starts here.
label start:
    $ name = Character(renpy.input("What's your name?"))
    e"Hello! I'm [name]!"

you are missing the character part when you ask for input

Indentation also matters.

[kivik]

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define e = Character("[name]")

# The game starts here.
label start:
$ name = Character(renpy.input("What's your name?"))
e"Hello! I'm [name]!"

you are missing the character part when you ask for input

Doesn't that make the variable name a Character??

The way the code worked was that a Character was created (called e) whose name is an interpolated string: "[name]" so whatever the variable name is, it'll be used as e's name.

[18point6y]

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define e = Character("[name]")

# The game starts here.
label start:
$ name = Character(renpy.input("What's your name?"))
e"Hello! I'm [name]!"

you are missing the character part when you ask for input

Thank you lots, that was it.
Unfortunately, I did not found any code with that "Character" part, so I hope this thread helps any newcomers with the same problem.

Also, thanks to everyone that tried to assist.