My Game Won't Start

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My Game Won't Start

#1 Post by dmasterxd » Sat Aug 15, 2015 6:06 pm

Okay so it's not finished and I'm mainly just writing in it for word count so there's nothing special going on in the script. But still usually whenever I launch the game, it still works and shows the words just with a gray screen. But now here's what it says:
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So can anyone help me out here? Please and thank you.

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Re: My Game Won't Start

#2 Post by PyTom » Sat Aug 15, 2015 7:51 pm

It looks like Ren'Py can't write to the directory containing your game. (The file it's having trouble with is tmp/navigation.json.)
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Re: My Game Won't Start

#3 Post by dmasterxd » Sat Aug 22, 2015 8:13 pm

PyTom wrote:It looks like Ren'Py can't write to the directory containing your game. (The file it's having trouble with is tmp/navigation.json.)
So...what do I do...?

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Re: My Game Won't Start

#4 Post by PyTom » Sat Aug 22, 2015 10:21 pm

Um.. perhaps move the game and Ren'Py somewhere else on your hard drive?
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Re: My Game Won't Start

#5 Post by orz » Sun Aug 23, 2015 9:13 am

Or set permissions on the folder so it *can* access it. But yeah, try moving it first.

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