Words¶

Words are special placeholder variables (not to be confused with Variables) that can be placed within any body of text in the Interactive CYOA. When used, they will be changed into whatever value they hold.

Words can be changed when a choice is pressed, or in textfields by the player, and be placed around in the text.

Note

Having too many Words is a good way to make your CYOA sluggish. Don't go too heavy on Words¹.

To open the Words menu, simply go to the Sidebar → Open Features → Words.

You will arrive at this screen:

Creating Words¶

To create a Word is very simple, just press Create New Word:

And our new word is created:

Deleting Words¶

Deleting words is very simple, just press Delete.

Settings¶

These are the individual fields that will adjust how you use Words.

Id that can be placed in the text¶

This is the Word's ID. By putting that anywhere in a body of text (such as, say, a Choice Text or Row Text), the program will automatically replace it with its value.

Typically, Word IDs start with #, but they don't have to.

Text to replace id with¶

This is the value of the Word. This is what the ID is replaced with.

If, for example, I had a variable named #favourite_game, and I wanted the Text that would replace it to be Minecraft, I could put this in a Row text:

What is your favourite game? Mine is #favourite_game!

and it would appear as:

What is your favourite game? Mine is Minecraft!

Here's a live demonstration

Learn more about what you can do with Words in the Reference.

Credit to lord_valmar on Discord for this tip ↩

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