#twine help

Really not sure why everyone's flocking to me for coding advice (I am not that smart people) but I can kind of try? 😭

Honestly, it will depend on which you choose but I work with SugarCube and it wasn't that hard for me to grasp it and it really isn't unless you're dealing with Javascript.

One of the first things I did was get a template because I hated the way default SugarCube thing looked so I would suggest get one of those if you care about looks and can't code it to be pretty.

One of the main things that helped me was the SugarCube Documentation it quite literally has everything ever and you can check how to use certain things if you're ever confused.

I also used @idrellegames' Coding in Twine Masterpost as my guide while I was figuring things out and honestly I still go and check it once in a while lol. I think this was my biggest help since I didn't really have anyone to ask things to + I'm insanely shy when asking for help.

Goctionni's SugarCube Validator is an extremely useful tool. It checks that your <<if>> <<elseif>> and <</if>> statements are structured correctly and catches errors in your code.

It can be used in your browser. Simply drag and drop your game's published html file into the validator and it will perform the checks and output any errors and the passages where they occur.

is the music in 'For the Ashes' yours? and I wanted to ask if you could explain how does it work, adding music/sounds into twine?

I got your comeback message and it just made the title that much better lmfao. I love it.

The music is not mine, it's licensed from other places that you'll have to pay a subscription for. https://filmmusic.io/ and some YouTube channels do have copyright free music that you can use for free as long as you add attribution if you don't wish to pay.

As for adding music in. There's a few ways to do it. SugarCube has a write up for it but I'll also explain.

After having your mp3/wav file in the folder you'll call it in the beginning (I put it after my StoryInIt files) as such:

<<cacheaudio "opening" "audio/audiotitle.mp3">>

The "opening" is simply what you would call the audio in game. So if you're using it for ambience you can call it "ambience1" or if you're using sfx for cars then "sfxcar." The next part just details where to find it. For me it'll always be in my audio folder and the rest is obvious.

When calling it up put it at the beginning of the passage as such:

<<audio "opening" play>>

There's tons of things you can add. The above just causes the audio to play.

Whereas this: <<audio "opening" loop play>> Will cause the song to loop after it's finished.

And this: <<audio "opening" volume 0.4 play>> Will have the music play at 40% volume.

Again, SugarCube has all the possible arguments so definitely use that if you're looking for something specific.

If you wanna stop into the discord server we've made to help with Twine coding, there's a whole bunch of guides we've put up and things we've worked out together to far! You don't have to interact or anything, just be there to see things to help you learn, too!

I have a couple of links that may help, however:

(REMEMBER TO USE SUGARCUBE!)

This is a guide I'm making that I'm still working on; it needs some updating and cleaning up.

And please, for the love of everything, if you're gonna be coding in Twine, use this link to learn how to code in multiple files instead of boxes:

Though, if you figured that out already, nevermind! 😆