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Archives aren’t encrypted - it’s trivially easy to extract the contents of the archive. It’d be awfully hard to really protect the assets in a game given the way Python works. Sure, you could code some encryption so that “raw archive extracts” weren’t directly usable, but it wouldn’t necessarily tak...

Next question - have you tried “outdenting” the local labels (and their statements) so they’re at the same level as the global label? That’s the structure I use, and they work fine.

Could it be the fact that you’re missing a space between “call” and “.read”?

You haven’t posted the exact code you’re using, so it’s hard to know exactly what to advise you to do. However, Renpy frequently interprets integers and floating point numbers to mean different things. (Pixels vs screen fractions) 1000*0.5 will result in a float, while 1000/2 or 1000*50/100 will res...

So I understand the build.package functionality as described here: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/build.html My question is: What are the equivalent build.package file list settings for each of the built-in distribution types? In other words, if I’m going to add a bonus file list to each of the buil...

Oops - typo. I've corrected the post. Sorry.

Apologies - I was AFK when I wrote my reply. Here's some sample code. The idea is that there's a Python function named "colorize" that will take an input string and return an output string where each of the letters in the input string is surrounded by a {color} tag. The colors to be used a...

Yes. If you have a new variable in Version 2 of your game, and if you declare it using “default,” the variable will get the default value even if the user restores a save from Version 1. So no exceptions get thrown. Declaring a value with “default” only sets the initial value at game start or load t...

@kivik - your statement about “default” is incorrect: Text below taken from https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/python.html The default statement sets a single variable to a value if that variable is not defined when the game starts, or after a new game is loaded.For example: default points = 0 When the ...

You could write a python function that would process the input string, inserting the various color definitions into it.
Or you could do something similar with a custom text tag: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/custom_text_tags.html

@Remix - shouldn’t that be xpos/ypos instead of xalign/yalign in your example? “Align” will reset the anchors, no?

Instead of “show screen and then hard pause”, why not just “call screen?” Still waits for user interaction, and you can still jump out of it to wherever you want.

Remember that a good portion of that 40Mb was the Renpy core, which won’t expand as your game expands, so things might not be as bad as you think. 1280x720, IMHO, is a pretty good resolution. If you use JPG’s for your background images, you can always trade off size for quality. Save PNG’s for image...

If your game maintained a list of the contacts that had been encountered, in the order they were encountered, your screen could iterate thru that list, adding image buttons for each character in the list. If the image buttons were inside a vbox, they would be listed vertically in the order encounter...

A suggestion: 1. Create a “zoom up transform” that starts at “small” and then zooms up to “large” over a fraction of a second using ATL 2. Create the reverse transform. 3. When you switch from one character another, do the “show” WITHOUT a dissolve. So when a character starts to speak, the “small” i...