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The styles are locked-in at the start of the game, and can't be changed. (This is mostly for performance reasons.) You should never change style or config variables while the game is running, since these do not participate in rollback. You can have a separate background per character by passing the ...

Welcome! We've had a lot of new people show up in the past few days... is there some sort of convention I don't know about? Anyway, right now interact= isn't supposed to be specified on objects directly. Instead, it's so you can use a character object as a function to show thins to the user. So you'...

You need to put the first argument of watch into quotes:
This also shows how you use the color property, xpos and ypos are also popular this time of year.

Shaja has uncovered a major bug with text speeds in 5.4.0, which will be fixed in 5.4.1, probably this weekend or so.

The best way to think about renpy.random.random is to think that each time Ren'Py starts, an infinite list of random numbers is created, and a pointer starts off at the start of this list. Everytime you take a random number, this pointer gets advanced one spot down the list, and the number at the pr...

Many, if not all, of the questions you have will be answered in the final scenario. I don't recall any outstanding questions left at the end of the game, except for some references in the timeline at the end that wound up being to events that happened in other games in the series. I believe the tran...

Have you tried using py4renpy? It's a distribution of all of the libraries and such needed to run Ren'Py on Linux, which you can download from http://www.bishoujo.us/renpy/linux.html To get midi working, you'll need to be sure you first have a working timidity, and then copy the configuration file t...

For those who are interested, Hirameki is posting up some interviews with the creators of Ever17. The first is up already, at: http://community.hirameki-int.com/modules/weblog1/details.php?blog_id=28 Free registration is required. The first interview is with the womand "in charge of the visuals...

The thing about the Monty Hall problem is that I'll have people swearing up and down that it can't be right. While people with math or CS training tend to get the right answer without a problem, other people will argue 'till they turn blue that there's no difference between the two remaining doors.

Well, hosting games when the creators can't is one of two main purposes of the Archives. The second is to ensure the continued existence and availability of the games even if the creators lose interest, or are incapacitated, or.... Anyway, your questions seem to have be satifactorily answered by oth...

Zero. Since the Montreal Expos don't exist any more, there's no way they can play against the Marlins. Seriously, this is a really poor question. The probablilty of a team winning a single baseball game depends on quite a bit of things, like how good the team is, if they have homefield advantage, we...

I'll track this down in a couple days, when I get some time. I haven't spent much time on the movie playback code recently, due to a percieved lack of interest. If someone showed genuine interest (== a mostly-working game, and perhaps a movie or so), I could even make it play more modern movie forma...

That's an idea. I actually might include Ren'Py anyway, despite my concerns... It's better to have a game made with an old version of Ren'Py then to not have a game made. I might close out the CD a few days early, so I can go into production a bit earlier. Is anyone about to release a game in the ne...

I'll post up an empty iso when I get a chance. Right now, we're at 450 or so megs of games, stored uncompressed so people don't have to worry about compressors. I'm considering bonuses. The BP manga will probably go on there, as well as Shoujo Attack. I'm debating what else to include. The problem w...

Really, it's a set-aside for creators who want a CD. I haven't figured out how I'm going to handle that yet. (I may bump the offset to 100, so I'm sure I have more than enough special numbers for everyone.)