Customizable pronouns

[Granyala]

Gender is a binary flag because "binary" is how a computer thinks. It's the simplest piece of data they can store. One or zero; on or off. There's no "halfway".

First of all: it would be called a "boolean" variable, not a binary one. Boolean differentiates between two states: true and false.

Second: I doubt that they use boolean for gender as that would make for pretty awkward coding. I'm sure it is a completely normal variable that points to a value in your character data and that information is then used to pick the right dialogue via if/else.

Adding in more states than two would not only require the rewrite of the character data, because right now with only 2 sexes 1 bit is enough to store the information, if you want a 3rd option you't have to beef it up to 2 bits. Also it would require another loop in the if/else decision making code.

It is pretty trivial to implement once you have the template because you can use (or point to) the same tiny code segment every time.