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Perhaps I'm a bit too greedy here and wanting to go for something the scale of the real Europa Universalis in terms of complexity, but I'm currently drowning in variables. Just defining all the necessary variables and the formulae needed to put them where they need to be have consumed about two hundred lines of code, and I'm not even past the ten percent mark yet!

So quick question: How do you guys keep your variables organized and compact?

Also slightly on a tangent: Where can I find some instruction regarding advanced use of the engine? For example, imagemapping and stuffs to turn a collection of menu items into a real, dynamic game?

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One Province Minor - 120 class variables and still counting!

Because there is no such thing as too many variables.

You stuff them into classes. Besides 200 lines of code isn't that much, the definitions for Loren RPGs skills alone is over 4000 lines.
Well, the items are defined in spreadsheets. That's actually another solution you should look into, it's much easier to organize then having all definitions in the code itself.
For my next project I want to use XML files and an editing tool to store the game date. It's much cleaner that way and more flexible then using spreadsheets.

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Hmm... is there a tutorial somewhere I could read more about this, may I ask?

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One Province Minor - 120 class variables and still counting!

Because there is no such thing as too many variables.

Well that depends on your background in programming. For classes you should search for an object oriented programming tutorial.
XML would be two parts, the xml file definition tutorial and the python xml parser. For the later I would recommend the Element Tree module.
For the spreadsheets you can simply copy paste them into a textfile and iterate over it with a for loop. To get a rows individual entries you use the split method.

I'm not sure what kind of instructions you are looking for regarding "advanced use of the engine", that depends a lot on the kind of game you are creating and on your own programming style. Well at least I don't know any tutorial for anything more complex than a Dating Sim. Projects that try to do something more complex with Ren'Py usually have their own programmer.

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