Trying to Randomize Murderer Selection

[Beverly-Peders]

I'm creating a basic murder mystery game. I've set it up where players select a character and so each VAR character_name will equal the number of what order they were chosen in.

Example:

VAR char_1 = 0
VAR char_2 = 0
VAR character = 1

=== character_selection ===
Select character:

• char_1
  ~ char_1 += character
  ~ character += 1
  -> character_selection
• char_2
  ~ char_2 += character
  ~ character += 1
  -> character_selection
• continue -> setup

Now I want to randomly select the character who is the murderer, but how do I do that when the information about the characters is in variable? I've gotten:

VAR killer_selection = 0
~ killer_selection = RANDOM(1,character)

So it will have a number, but how can I make it search through the variables to select the one that has that number and name it the killer?

Let me know if you need more info.

[Beverly-Peders]

Ah! I figured it out! Just needed a simple if bracket thing. It doesn't feel elegant, but this is what I have!

{
- desponia == killer_selection:
~ killer += "desponia"
- khione == killer_selection:
~ killer += "khione"
- ded_moroz == killer_selection:
~ killer += "ded_moroz"
- itzlacoliuhqui == killer_selection:
~ killer += "itzlacoliuhqui"
- marzanna == killer_selection:
~ killer += "marzanna"
- skadi == killer_selection:
~ killer += "skadi"
- hine_takurua == killer_selection:
~ killer += "hine_takurua"
- shakok == killer_selection:
~ killer += "shakok"
- else:
~ killer += "naneh_sarma"

}

Now I have it so the killer has the name of the character. There's much more to do so I may be back if I get stumped again.

[Sklartacus]

Ah, thanks for this! I've been working on my own similar exercise that uses randomization in this way and this'll be helpful.