First of all lets show you a very simple code in Liberty Basic

 

print "Welcome To My First Game"

 

     the print statement tells the computer to write whatever you put in the quotation marks so it would appear as-

 

Welcome To My First Game

 

       Notice that "print" doesnt show up. The computer takes that as a direct order. Its not in Quotes. Lets get more complicated. Now lets talk about variables. A Variable is a word or letter that stores data. The data may change according to what you want to do to it. Like in a fighting game, Health would be a variable because when you get hurt (health = health - damage). So it subtracts damage from health. Get it? Good. Lets move on. To use a variable in Liberty Basic you would do this-

 

input "Are you a boy or a girl? "; gender$

 

The "input statement tells the computer to write somthing and then ask the player for an answer. So it will ask you if you ae a boy or a girl and then stores whatever you type inside the (gender$) variable. The semicolon is something that you put there because.... uhhh im not sure how to explain it but thats how you do it. Now

 

print "Welcome To My First Game. "

input "Are you a boy or a girl? "; gender$

print " You are a "; gender$

 

Notice the dollar sign? it tells the computer that its a variable. Now what it would do is ask you if you are a boy or girl and then tell you whatever you put in. For example

 

Welcome To My First Game.

Are you a boy or a girl? Boy (hit enter)

You are a boy

 

See that? now if the user had typed in girl it would have said girl. There are limitless possibilities in Text Based Games.Once I made an extrememly long text adventure with my friend. It was kool. Ok on to strings. Ok onto the if statement.

 

input "Are you a boy or a girl? "; gender$
if gender$ = "boy" then goto [boy]
goto [girl]
[boy]
print "You probably like skateboarding. "
end

[girl]
print "You probably like nail polish or whatever ."
end

 

That was a little more complicated. Study that Coding and see if you can understand the concepts of it. thos [thingy] things are certain gateways in the program. You can jump to any section using the (goto) command. Notice that [boy] and [girl] are seperate parts in the program.