Help with Multiple Endings (Harlowe)

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• greyelf

  September 2016

  You don't give an example of what the (link / macro) contents of the first passage looks like so I am going to assume it is something like the following:
  
  note: The 'Target Passage Name' may or may not be the same for each option.

  Some descriptive text that ends in a multiple choice question.
  
  [[Option 1->Target Passage Name]]
  [[Option 2->Target Passage Name]]
  [[Option 3->Target Passage Name]]
  [[Option 4->Target Passage Name]]
  

  
  1. You can change the links in the above to use a (link: ) macro combined with a (set: ) macro and a (go-to: ) macro, to use a story $variable to track which option was selected:

  Some descriptive text that ends in a multiple choice question.
  
  (link: "Option 1")[{
  	(set: $choice to 1)
  	(go-to: "Target Passage Name")
  }]
  (link: "Option 2")[{
  	(set: $choice to 2)
  	(go-to: "Target Passage Name")
  }]
  (link: "Option 3")[{
  	(set: $choice to 3)
  	(go-to: "Target Passage Name")
  }]
  (link: "Option 4")[{
  	(set: $choice to 4)
  	(go-to: "Target Passage Name")
  }]
  

  2. In your last passage you can use an (if: ) macro combined with a couple of (else-if: ) macros and an (else: ) macro to check the story $variable and display different things based on it's value:

  {
  (if: $choice is 1)[
  The first ending.
  ]
  (else-if: $choice is 2)[
  The second ending.
  ]
  (else-if: $choice is 3)[
  The third ending.
  ]
  (else:)[
  The forth ending.
  ]
  }
  

  note: the above examples use indentation, extra line-breaks and Collapsing whitespace markup to try and make them more readable and to remove unwanted line-breaks in the generated output, all these things can be safely removed in your own copy.
• FreshEnemy

  September 2016

  THANK YOU SO MUCH