Create dialogue options

Authoring Twine
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Twine 2.3.5 / Harlowe 3.1.0

How could I create dialogue options within a passage, where the conversation unfolds according to the player’s choices?

2

I found a solution, nesting the (replace:) macro inside a (link:) macro.

(link: “OPTION A”)[result of OPTION A (replace: “OPTION B”)[]]
(link: “OPTION B”)[result of OPTION B (replace: “OPTION A”)[]]

The brackets after the (replace:) macro are left empty, so that the text is replaced by nothing.

The only problem is that it leaves empty spaces where the text was, but it works!

3

And the really elegant solution that removes the unwanted blanks :

|links>[{
	(link: "First line of selectable text")[
		(replace: ?links)[First line of selectable text]
		(show: ?reply1)
	]
	<br>
	(link: "Second line of selectable text")[
		(replace: ?links)[Second line of selectable text]
		(show: ?reply2)
	]
	<br>
	(link: "Third line of selectable text")[
		(replace: ?links)[Third line of selectable text]
		(show: ?reply3)
	]
	<br>
	(link: "Forth line of selectable text")[
		(replace: ?links)[Forth line of selectable text]
		(show: ?reply4)
	]
}]

{
|reply1)[
	Text related to first line.
]
|reply2)[
	Text related to second line.
]
|reply3)[
	Text related to third line.
]
|reply4)[
	Text related to forth line.
]
}
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