Question and Answer

[woodsta]

Hi Everyone, I'm new to Alice and programming in general, i'm following a tutorial for a supposedly simple question and answer game where i have a character that asks you to guess his name, i have set the variable to randomly generate his name form a list of five names,. i get four attempts to get it right before the character tells me his name but i just can't seem to make it work, essentially i can parse my user input and get the character to say no my name is not (user input) and i have tried using a while clause but it doesn't seem to work , i may be uning it incorrectly though.

Any assistance would be appreciated

Cheers

Woodsta

[sfunk]

upload your world so we can see what you have so far so we can give suggestions on how to fix it

[woodsta]

Hi there thanks but i think i've sorted it.

The world is attached anyway, i think my if statement was in the wrong place and hence why it did not work as it thought it should, must buy that textbook.!!

The only thing i've not managed to get it to do is after the forth attempt skip the" no my name is not USERINPUT and go straight to "hats four attempts i'll just have to tell you my name, it's RANDOMNAME.

[woodsta]

just checking my class notes, have to change this to directly tell the name after the 4th attempt, i'm thinking a new if statement??

[sfunk]

you have the right idea, you should create a new world variable, a number variable, which have it set at 4 to start with, and everytime the player guesses the name, have that variable count down, when it reaches 0 you will need an if/else statement checking to see if it is zero, and when that that variable reaches zero, have that if/else statment tell the player the persons name, hope you can understand what I just said

[ZoiieeMadden]

Hey All, I am new here and was having a similar problem. I will hijack your answer and read the tutorials! So thanks for sharing!

--------------------
Zoiiee Madden

[room14]

lolwut?