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Pronoun Integration

Example files to look at: tutorial_6_meeting.rpy

This program allows the player to change their pronouns whenever they desire during the game. This means that any reference to the player's gender or use of pronouns to refer to the player will need to be taken care of via variables. In variables_editable.rpy under the PRONOUN VARIABLES heading you will find many default variables already defined.

Defining additional helper variables

If you would like to define additional variables to help with typing dialogue, you must first define the variable in variables_editable.rpy as mentioned above, and also under the set_pronouns() function in the same file.

For this example, a variable called go_goes will be defined for the three main pronoun options.

First, in variables_editable.rpy under the PRONOUN VARIABLES heading, add

default go_goes = "go"

Then at the top of the file, under the function set_pronouns() add

global go_goes

at the top of the function. Then under both if persistent.pronoun == "female" and elif persistent.pronoun == "male" add the line

go_goes = "goes"

and under elif persistent.pronoun = "non binary" add

go_goes = "go"

That is all! To use the new variable in dialogue, you can type

y "Yeah, [they] said [they] usually [go_goes] out on Fridays."

If the player has he/him pronouns, in-game this will display as Yeah, he said he usually goes out on Fridays.. If the player has they/them pronouns, this will instead display as Yeah, they said they usually go out on Fridays.

Variables are capitalization-sensitive, so you can also create "capitalization" versions of variables (e.g. you could have a separate Go_Goes variable that is either Go or Goes depending on preferred pronouns).

There is no limit to how many of these variables you can make, so feel free to create as many as you need to write your script more easily.