Writing for the game can contain word replacements that allow text to be dynamically customized. Word replacements are contained within '|' characters.

The system uses a series of scope identifiers and ends in the specific value you wish to retrieve; each scope identifier is separated with a full stop '.' You can use as many scope identifiers as you want before arriving at the value.

<aside> 💡 Word replacements are case insensitive but if you want the replacement to start with a capital, start the replacement text with a capital. If you want to use all caps, use a capital for the last letter.

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<aside> 💡 The 'starting point' of the scope will depend on the text:

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• A document or written message will have the physical world representation as a starting point; an object (eg note or letter).
• A conversation will have the person speaking the text as the starting point.
• A V-mail will have the v-mail's writer as a starting point.
• A newspaper article will have either a murder as a starting point, or the newspaper itself (object) if a non-murder related article, depending on the setting in the DDS editor.

For example if I wanted to access the formal name of a landlord from a document found in a person's apartment I'd do the following: |location.landlord.formalname|. The starting scope is the document itself (object), so to get the landlord's name I need to switch scope to the document's location (place), from there I can again switch scope to the landlord (person), then finally return their formal name.

<aside> 💡 The below types marked with a '*' means you can access them without a preceding scope identifier.

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Scope Identifier Types