Printing Variables

Truth

Hi everyone! I'm fairly new to Twine and coding in general, and I've been reading and practicing a lot with strings in SugarCube, but I've hit a bit of an issue. In the story I'm writing, the player finds 5 pieces of gold, of which I believe the code would be:

<<set $gold += 5>>

However, when I go to display the amount of gold the player has:

<<print "You have" + $gold + "gold coins.">>

It reads: You haveNaN gold coins. I've read numerous sources on how to change it, but I have not been able to find any that help. Any help or tips you can offer to this newbie would be greatly appreciated!  ;D

greyelf

You need to initialize the $gold variable before you try to add 5 more to it.

So in your StoryInit passage do the following


<<set $gold to 0>>


Now this code will display:  You have 5 gold coins.
(note: I changed you code and added an extra space before and after the $gold variable.)


<<set $gold += 5>>
<<print "You have " + $gold + " gold coins.">>


Truth

Awesome! Thank you so very much!  ;D