Post by komehara in !READ THIS! Rules, Interpretations, & FAQ

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For text of choices, I often have duplicates (if player chooses “A”, character will say “A”), I suppose it doesn’t go against the count?

Even then I need to be smart so my word counter does not count redundant text. I stored them in variables and injected them with “[this syntax]” on both menu choice and the text that appears when selecting that choice…

EDIT: it doesn’t work with Word Counter+ as it will count string variables as 1 word per variable, so the count will be too optimistic. You can manually reinject that count anyway.

Ekkoberry61 days ago

If it only appears once in the code( but is repeated on-screen multiple times in-game), it only counts once!

komehara61 days ago

But surely if a developer doesn’t have the courage to make a string variable for every choice and duplicates a choice text string for convenience, it would also count as once? (it makes more sense to me to evaluate the game on its final result that on how it’s made internally - for instance if I paste 5 static sprites on a background together for convenience of tuning precise sprite placement, but the sprites never mode, it’s identical to a CG in final render, and nobody would be able to tell otherwise without looking at the code)

Either way I used the variable trick and found out I was already below 1000 words so I could submit the game!

Ekkoberry60 days ago

We do operate to a certain extent on good faith-- we probably won't disqualify someone for sub-optimal coding practices if we can't notice the difference when playing, but this is a jam where you're encouraged to be resourceful-- 1000 words is the most you get to work with.

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