[Solved]Randomizing events within the game without reloading

[Cinto]

Something I am thinking of implementing into a future game is a calendar system, where there would be 30 days and within each individual day, there would be set events that always happen, and then randomized events that are different each time.

Is this possible, and if so, how would that look?

Thanks,
Cinto

[pwisaguacate]

Fellow brothers and sisters, I am truly surprised to have come upon outdated manuscript that brought awe to the eyes. I crawled out of a dilapidated crypt and ran for the life of me that I must babble like a child and spread word across town. The text came from a document labeled "Category: Changed in 6.9.0":

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# return a random float between 0 and 1
$ randfloat = renpy.random.random()

# return a random integer between 1 and 20
$ d20roll = renpy.random.randint(1, 20)

# return a random element from a list
$ randfruit = renpy.random.choice(['apple', 'orange', 'plum'])

I clumsily entered the random() into one of my sandbox scripts. I then scrawled "%(testnum)f seconds to glory" and ran the project. In anticipation, I began to laugh in faux evil...

Lo and behold, it works! It printed "0.432812 seconds to glory". I hit Start Game in the menu again: it printed ".647788 seconds to glory". My mind burned afire.

I recall hearing a brother mention pseudo-probability or something of the sorts, "though it's not completely random". But with this rediscovered technology, we may set an if statement to jump to certain labels dependent on the random numbers received!

EDIT: With a wide, sinister grin I devised a minigame:

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label start:
    $ survived = 0

label roulette:
    $ test = renpy.random.randint(1,7)

    d "Well, well..."
    d "Play some Russian Roulette. You have a 1:7 chance to live."

    if test != 1:
        "BANG! You die."
        $ survived = 0
    else:
        "You live!"
        $ survived += 1

    if survived == 10:
        d "You survived 10 times! I'll let you leave the underworld... *snicker*"
        return
    else:
        jump roulette

[Cinto]

Wow. Thanks. I think I get it.

One more thing, how would I make it so that certain events only activate after a prior random event has activated?

[pwisaguacate]

It should work something like this (not tested):

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label start:
    $ roulette = False
    $ survived = 0
    [random chance to initiate label roulette]

label roulette:
[...]

    if survived == 10:
        $ roulette = True
        d "You survived 10 times! I'll let you leave the underworld... *snicker*"
        jump leave

[...]

label other_scene:
    if roulette == True
        e "Wow, you are the first person to meet and survive Death!"
        e "According to the legend, the others are forced to play for eternity..."
        e "Lemmasoft heartily welcomes you back."
        [...]
    else:
        pass