[SOLVED] How to restart the game?

[Kinmoku]

Hi all,

I've implemented a "reset all game progress" button which seems to be working just fine. However, when I call the main menu afterwards, the game crashes. I believe this is because my menu has a persistent variable in it and, since I've just deleted them all, it comes up with an error.

If there is a way to restart the game, instead of calling the main menu, I believe this should sort the problem. Is this possible?

Here's my full code. The reset button is in preferences:

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            button:
                action Show("reset_popup")
                style "mainmenu_choice_button"
                text "Reset Game" style "mainmenu_choice"

... which calls this pop up:

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screen reset_popup:
    window:
        add "mainmenubg"

    hbox:
        add "images/popup.png" xanchor 0.0 yanchor 0 xpos 410 ypos 200

    vbox:
        yanchor 0
        xanchor 0.5
        ypos 350
        xalign 0.5
        xmaximum 1000
        ymaximum 350

        label ("This will reset the game and delete all your progress.\nDo you want to continue?"):
            text_style "yesno_label_text"
            xalign 0.5
            yalign 0.5
            
        hbox:
            style "menu"
            ypos 300
            spacing 70

            button:
                action Jump("resetprogress")
                style "menu_choice_button"
                text "Yes" style "menu_choice"
                
            button:
                action Return()
                style "menu_choice_button"
                text "No" style "menu_choice"

    key "game_menu" action Jump("resetprogress")

resetprogress label:

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label resetprogress:
     $ persistent._clear(progress=True)
     call screen main_menu

In main_menu, I have this which shows up the first time you complete an ending:

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if len(persistent.endings) == 1:
        add "whiteout"

        hbox:
            add "images/popup.png" xanchor 0 yanchor 0 xpos 410 ypos 200

        vbox:
            yanchor 0
            xanchor 0.5
            ypos 245
            xalign 0.5
            xmaximum 1000
            ymaximum 350

            label _("You have finished your first play-through of... etc etc"):
                text_style "yesno_label_text"
                xalign 0.5
                yalign 0.5
                
            hbox:
                style "menu"
                xalign 0.5
                ypos 100
                spacing 70

                button:
                    action [Return(), AddToSet(persistent.endings, 1)]
                    style "menu_choice_button"
                    text "Okay" style "menu_choice"

And, at the top of my script.rpy, is this:

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init -2 python:
    if persistent.endings == None:
        persistent.endings = []

[papiersam]

Using

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init -2 python:
    if persistent.endings == None:
        persistent.endings = []

Really only works when the program is reloaded. Try:

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label resetprogress:
     $ persistent._clear(progress=True)
     $persistent.endings = []
     call screen main_menu

Although, it depends on how much persistent data needs to be reinitialised after the delete. If it's just the endings, the aforementioned should suffice. If there's still an error, then there's a bit more data that needs to be reinitialised.

Hope that helps.

[Kinmoku]

Using

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init -2 python:
    if persistent.endings == None:
        persistent.endings = []

Really only works when the program is reloaded. Try:

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label resetprogress:
     $ persistent._clear(progress=True)
     $persistent.endings = []
     call screen main_menu

Although, it depends on how much persistent data needs to be reinitialised after the delete. If it's just the endings, the aforementioned should suffice. If there's still an error, then there's a bit more data that needs to be reinitialised.

Hope that helps.

Hey thank you, this makes it work However, I'm wondering ... Is it possible to reload the entire game from within the game?

[philat]

I would experiment with renpy.full_restart and renpy.reload_script. Not sure if either is exactly what you're envisioning, but seems a decent place to start.

[Kinmoku]

I would experiment with renpy.full_restart and renpy.reload_script. Not sure if either is exactly what you're envisioning, but seems a decent place to start.

Thanks Philat I'll give these a go.