Problem: you need an array of strings, but your level scripting language does not support any collection data types
Solution: put all the strings in as keyvalues on an arbitrary map entity, and iterate over those instead 
there she is
- she/her
- binarypartitioned.space/
— hitscanner apologist ⚡
— tired trans woman ⚧️☣
— not always grumpy, she just looks like that 💀
— level/environment designer 🔨
— Current work: Skin Deep (at Blendo Games) 🐈
📍 Adelaide, Australia
Private page (for friends): @garbagegrenade
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in reply to @trashbang's post:
This is some peak "if it's stupid and it works then it's not stupid.." ( ◡‿◡ )
I was experimenting with modding American McGee's Alice once and wanted to be able to save values using dynamically named keys in their scripting language so ended up hacking together a system where you "declare" a SaveLoad variable which creates an untriggerable trigger_once named SAVELOAD_DATA_{keyname} and then you have functions which can save and retrieve integers via their SaveLoad keys, which works by setting or returning the corresponding trigger_once's health keyvalue.
I should definitely write a post (or several) about that game some time honestly. I had quite a bit of fun with it.
