Ren'Py VNs that Use Multi-Game Persistent Data?

[Katy133]

I'm looking for examples of Ren'Py-made visual novels that use persistent data that goes from one game to another (like an episodic series). Meaning, you make choices in the first game, and those choices affect the second game, etc.

Any examples out there?

[parttimestorier]

I believe that if you play Don't Take It Personally when you have a save file of Digital: A Love Story, it mentions the name you chose for the protagonist of Digital. But I'm not entirely sure if that programming was done in Ren'Py or not.

[trooper6]

Digital and Don't Take it Personally were both done in Ren'py.
Analogue: A Hate Story and the sequel/add-on Hate Plus has multi persistent data and that was coded in Ren'Py as well.

[Imperf3kt]

How does one achieve that, is it documented?
What I'm saying is, I can't logic it out in my mind how you check persistent data of another game that could be installed in unpredictable folders.

[Divona]

How does one achieve that, is it documented?
What I'm saying is, I can't logic it out in my mind how you check persistent data of another game that could be installed in unpredictable folders.

Ren'Py does the alternate save to the same directory on specific platforms. That's where persistent data will be.

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## Controls the platform-specific place Ren'Py will place the save files for
## this game. The save files will be placed in:
##
## Windows: %APPDATA\RenPy\<config.save_directory>
##
## Macintosh: $HOME/Library/RenPy/<config.save_directory>
##
## Linux: $HOME/.renpy/<config.save_directory>

I think Ren'Py scan that folder and check persistent data with the same key provided and pull out data from that.

[trooper6]

How does one achieve that, is it documented?
What I'm saying is, I can't logic it out in my mind how you check persistent data of another game that could be installed in unpredictable folders.

Yes it is documented. In the documentation under Persistent Data: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/persiste ... ersistence
There is even an example.