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So, the final solution was to use plain ol' dictionaries and lists for the achievement data, and relegate the class object to being a mere data handler. The conversion process was pretty painful, wordy, and backwards. There really ought to be a better way to persist objects, especially for operation...

As persistent data is loaded before init python blocks are run, persistent data should only contain types that are native to Python or Ren'Py. Alternatively, classes that are defined in python early blocks can be used, provided those classes can be pickled and implement equality. My approach in sim...

As the immortal Lloyd Bridges said in Airplane, looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking. I started down a rathole trying to implement my own achievements system that would wrap the rudimentary Steam-flavored achievement class. Everything was working fine until I tried to persist my list ...

Your code snippet shows that after playing the sound you make some scene changes and pauses with auto timers, so nothing that forces a user to interact. Which player would save the game in the middle of some scene change to begin with? I didn't include every line of code in the whole app. After the...

As far as checkpoints go, the save file loads to the proper screen. Maybe I need to try manually setting a checkpoint at the save point? I would have assumed that Ren'Py already does that... So here is an example for a sound that would play after loading: label start: "Welcome!" play soun...

Could it be that after processing after_load_callbacks Ren'Py reconstructs the saved checkpoint, so that the sound played at the saved interaction gets played, regardless of what you did before in callbacks? Then if you could change "current sound" data during after_load , playing that la...

Is this the only point in your game, where you play that gasp sound? Maybe it doesn't originate from right here. I remember that I had a similar problem once, but the sound was part of a screen and I don't even remember what was the issue. Also, which Renpy version are you using? At the point of th...

Renpy will rollback to the last checkpoint and redo certain stuff, that occured beginning with this checkpoint. So how about you present the code that leads to this? Or does the sound always happen, no matter where you save your game? By the way, there is not function "renpy.sound.stop()"...

I'm a bit baffled by this one. I go to load a save file, and the last sound that was played before the save suddenly triggers. The sound is not looped and was completed long before the game was saved. I added an after load callback: def kill_sounds() -> None: renpy.sound.stop(channel='sound', fadeou...

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We're already distributing a version with JPG backgrounds instead of the premium WEBP images Instead of JPG backgrounds, better use WEBP images with lower quality settings. They have better quality/size ratio than JPEG. We experimented with that. For one thing, it makes the conditional compilation ...

By the time we're done with our game this fall, its package size will be somewhere around 8GB. :shock: This is mainly due to the sheer number of images being used. We're already distributing a version with JPG backgrounds instead of the premium WEBP images, and are optimizing image sizes down as bes...

:shock: That boom that you just heard was the sound of my forehead crashing to my desk. My project includes 0x52_URM to test the game when built for distribution because by that point the console is turned off. I have a build rule to omit it from build packages destined for release. The latest versi...

I tested the behavior in my Renpy 8.2.1 (Nightly Fix) and the splashscreen works fine. If I check "Skip splashscreen" in the launcher options, it is skipped. If I uncheck, it is shown again when launching. You don't have to do anything special regarding the splashscreen. Just put a label ...

I'm having a bizarre new issue having to do with a splash screen. Code that worked before, now doesn't. During development and running the app using the launcher, my splashscreen code is no longer being called. Yes, I know about the new Preferences→Options→ Skip splashscreen button . And yes, it's u...