Today I am going to show you how to add simple choices and how to remember a choice for your episode story. Episode is all about making choices for your story and seeing what the outcome will be. Every episode story has at least one choice in them and to remember a choice is really simply; but let us start with even how to create a choice. In your episode script to create a choice is easy. All you have to do is type in the word “choice” and you will see below it a highlighted bold word in black that says choice.

(like in the picture here.) or you can go under script templates and select “Choice - Simple” like the picture below.

Once you click the word or script template you will see the word “choice” with two options that appeared that will look like this:

We can add dialogue if you would like to because if you do not then it will go onto the next part of your story. If you want to add dialogue simply choose one of your characters (in this case I selected a character named Grace) , click the spacebar after your have selected the character you want (in this case Grace), add a open bracket [ ( ] and select a talking animation simply by typing talk_ and it will show you all the talking animations; once you have selected a talking animation add a closing bracket to the end of your animation [ ) ]. Tap the enter key and add some dialogue. So if you want to add dialogue your script will look similar to the picture below:

Now once you get onto this screen you can rename the choices to whatever you like to and that is how you do a simple choice. You can add more choices simply by adding them like in this picture:

How to make it look like in the picture: Beside the end bracket( } ) under “option2” your going to type in a quotation mark ( “ ) and write “option3” or whatever you want to call it. Then add the end quotation marks ( ” ).Then add the start open bracket ( { ) at the end of your “option3” . Hit the enter key twice and then add then end bracket for your choice ( } )Repeat steps 1 through 3 to create option 4. Now how to remember a choice gets a little more complicated but not too crazy. It isn’t too difficult from what we have already learned so far. All you're going to do is add a bracket [ ( ] after the word choice. Then you're going to type in a label you want. In this example I am going to do favourite colour. choice (remember_favecolor all you have to do is add the end bracket [ ) ] which would then look like this choice (remember_favecolor). So your choice should look like the picture below :

Looks easy right? But we are not done. Like a simple choice at the start of this lesson we have to add dialogue. If there is no dialogue in your choices then it will go onto the rest of your scene. That is okay as well but I prefer dialogue. We are going to have a simple dialogue for this fave color choice like we did earlier with the simple choice dialogue. In the example we are going to have your character (in this case I selected Grace again) say what their favourite color is from the choice above. So your script should look similar to this:

Now how to apply remember a choice to another episode is easy. All you do is remove the word choice and change it to if, remove the end bracket [ ) ] at the end of your remember choice and add the word is in its place, and add the end bracket [ ) ] after you final quotation mark for your choice. In this case it should look like this:

if (remember_favecolor is "Red") {

GRACE (talk_preen)

My favourite color is Red Rosko, not green.

}

if (remember_favecolor is "Blue") {

GRACE (talk_preen)

My favourite color is Blue Rosko, not green.

}

if (remember_favecolor is "Yellow") {

GRACE (talk_preen)

My favourite color is Yellow Rosko, not green.

}

if (remember_favecolor is "Green") {

GRACE (talk_preen)

My favourite color is Green Rosko, you are right for once.

}

You can use remember choice really for any choice you like (outfits, situations, favourite colour, etc.) the possibilities are endless. I hope that this lesson was helpful and useful to all of you.Hope this helps you all with remembering choices and how to add choices to your own stories. ~ Sylvia