What I want to do is, inside an Exit, substitute out the target room's designation, for a variable. something like

{exit roomID 6 16}

And then the variable 'roomID' holds the target room's ID number, which can then be changed so I can redirect exits without writing a bunch of if/then branches.

So far, this *almost* works; it changes to the correct room, but fails to place the Avatar anywhere in the new room, so the game becomes inoperable. I noticed the same thing happens if you format it like {exit 0 6 16} (forgetting the "" around the room number) so I thought "roomID" might work, but no luck so far.

Hi, earthen! Yours is the question I read awhile back and got intrigued. I see that nobody still got back to u. Despite my many things I've learned the past year or so using Bitsy, I have no clue how to help u with this problem, but it sounds so interesting! I've read some things on variables from Andrew Yolland and a few others (ripple writes, Time 4 Sum BS Fish Names, etc), but I honestly have no idea on your query UNLESS Adam makes that a feature of sum kind in his next update?

Props to u for thinking of such a useful thing! Well, that's 3 posts in one day after just joining. Hope I was able to help a few ppl out at least, so they can enjoy even more of the wonderful world of Adam LeDoux's Bitsy! :D

Hey!

So as far as I know, vanilla Bitsy doesn't contain a function to store rooms' IDs as variables. However, you can do some roundabouts to achieve kind of similar results. My way of doing it was through a bunch of branching lists. For example, in this game, the player is sent to a random room each time they go through an exit, but some conditions determine what room they will appear in.

So, as I see it, you can use a branching list as a 'variable' of sorts, that will contain all your rooms, with different conditions attached to each of them. Then when the exit is triggered, the game will run through all of the conditions and determine which room to send a player into. This is super cumbersome, though, and may even make Bitsy lag and crash, so based on my personal experience, I would say do it at your own risk. 

Hey, earthan. Sounds similar to what Valeriy suggested, tho I like your pov of looking at exits as best-used as dialog triggers. Nice input from u both. I was timid to reply, as earlier yesterday, it seemed like I got a temporary ban... I couldn't access anything on itch.io at all, this forum, itch.io games, nada. It went-away after an hour or maybe longer (I never noted when I tried again). I thot itch.io was down, but dif. sites sed it wasn't, so I'm gonna be careful how often I post here, just in case.