Has anyone ever made an RPG-like campaign?

[Squid]

A counter is exactly what it sounds like, it counts something. The while part of a script keeps doing what's inside of the while as long as the condition of the while is met.

So you might have something like

while I_TurnNumber <= 100
count = count + 1
end while

so this non-functioning bit of script would increase your counter by one for every year up to an including 100AD.

[SSJVegetaTrunks]

Well, I'm looking at the prologue script. It says things like:

		while I_CompareCounter go_to_end_phase = 1
		end_while

		dismiss_advice
	
		while I_AdvisorVisible
		end_while

I must be missing something, because all I see is "while something" over and over. Is it saying "while that, dismiss_advice"? The organization of script files is really confusing me.

What does CompareCounter mean, anyway?

[Squid]

The end while are the key part there:

		while I_CompareCounter go_to_end_phase = 1
		end_while

This part says while the counter go_to_end_phase is equal to 1, do nothing, or more precisely wait for the user to do whatever is required to change go_to_end_phase

note: there is nothing between the while line and the end_while line, which says the while loop does nothing

	
		dismiss_advice

once go_to_end_of_phase is no longer 1 it dismisses the advice

	
		while I_AdvisorVisible
		end_while

Again, like the first while it says while I_AdvisorVisible is true (i.e. you the Advisor is visible on screen) do nothing.

And I_CompareCounter means exactly what is says, compare the counter after me to some other value (in this case the number) using a comparison operator (= or < or > or not in some combination)

[SSJVegetaTrunks]

Ohhh, thanks a lot!