How to make a link in a story go to a specific next story based on the answer in a previous story.

Question

I'll try to explain it with an example:

1. In the story a guy is able to make a few career choices (e.g. bartender, cook, ...)
    
2. Somewhere in the story of each career choice he'l have a hard time and have the possibility to give up. Then would follow a small piece of the story where someone tries to make him see reason. For every career choice this part of the story should be the same. 
   (e.g. he chose to be a bartender, in this second part he's in doubt but someone convinces him to go on)
    
3. If the guy chose to go on, then the next part of the story should be based on the career choice he made in the beginning.
   (e.g. the link, in the second part of the story, that makes him go through with it should link to a part based on his bartender career choice)

How can I make the link that makes him go on with his career, in the second part of the story, jump to the next part of the story based on the career choice that was made in the beginning?

I basically don't want to make multiples of that second story part but I still want to use it in every career choice.

I'm new at twine and code, I'm using Harlowe 2.1.0

Answer 1

The simple answer is to use a story variable to track which career the Reader chose, then use that variable later to conditionally show the relevant text.

A more detailed answer:

1. You use the (set:) macro to assign a career related value to a story variable.

Choose a career:

(link: "Bartender")[\
	(set: $career to "bartender")\
	(go-to: "Name of next passage")\
]
(link: "Cook")[\
	(set: $career to "cook")\
	(go-to: "Name of next passage")\
]

2. You can use the (if:) macro and the related (else-if:) macro to conditionally do something in a later Passage.

Some common text....

(if: $career is "bartender")[\
Some text only related to the bartender career...
]\
(else-if: $career is "cook")[\
Some text only related to the cook career...
]\

Some more common text....

3. Use same technique as point 2 except to show a career related link instead.

(if: $career is "bartender")[\
[[Next Passage->Continue Bartender story]]
]\
(else-if: $career is "cook")[\
[[Next Passage->Continue Cook story]]
]

 

Comments

Ok, thanks! I'll try it out.

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