Understanding code? number of shadowguys and pippins in cooking show room

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the shadowguys and pippins pages currently say that 40 shadowguys and 19 pippins can be found in the cooking show room.

however it actually looks like the numbers are determined based off of variables in gml_Object_obj_dw_teevie_party_controller_Create_0. i can’t make sense of the code myself. is anyone able to translate that into meaning?

i know the simplest solution is just edit the pages to say “a random number” and move on, but i think the exact causes behind the randomness are interesting enough to include on the pages!

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By a cursory look, it seems like

  • The party is organizes into three rows.
  • These rows contain either 10 or 20 characters each, based on some argument that I’m not sure where is being passed in from. Might be related to violence/lost recruits? Unsure.
  • This means that the party will have 30 or 60 members.
  • Each character is has a 2/3 chance to be a shadowguy and a 1/3 chance to be a pippins.
  • Additionally, there is a 10% chance that a single random character that is not in the middle row is replaced with a zapper.
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The argument is passed from here, and it’s true if all enemies have been recruited in Chapter 3, false otherwise.

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Ooh, is there any footage of a Zapper appearing there? I don't think I've ever encountered that.

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Nope, the code is buggy so the Zapper never appears.

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Classic Toby Code

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Here is how it would look like, though.

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