Recommended practices for "multiple and separate storylines" structure?

[017Bluefield]

I already have one storyline with my current project. Start from point A, proceed all the way to point B. Thing is, I'm aiming for my project to have another storyline, separate from the first but also (hypothetically) accessible from the start. Are there any recommended or best practices when approaching this?

• Start
• Menu:
  1. Apple
     1. Beginning
     2. Middle
     3. End
     4. (loop to Menu)
  2. Butter
     1. Beginning
     2. Middle
     3. End
     4. (loop to Menu)
• Quit

[Dsiak]

If you mean a way to write the narrative like that I am short on ideas, but to organize the structure of the project as in the folders and scripts here is what I would do.

root:

• Common Asset (image or music or sfx etc):
  common assets
  • A asset
  • B asset...

• main script.rpy
• main screens.rpy

• A scripts:
  A screens.rpy
  beginning.rpy
  middle.rpy
  end.rpy

• B scripts:
  B screens.rpy
  beginning.rpy
  middle.rpy
  end.rpy

Then on your main script you can just call the chapters as they come, and you can squeeze new blocks in the middle or change the orders without having to copy and paste copious amount of lines:

• Start
• Menu:
  1. Apple
     • call beginning_a
     • if flag call route_c else call middle_a
     • call end_a
     • (loop to Menu)
  2. Butter
     • call beginning_b
     • middle_b
     • end_b
     • (loop to Menu)
• Quit

Keeping the flow visible on the main script makes it easy to understand and modify. I do this all the time when I have a god class (which is far to frequent). The point is basically to keep your main script clean of anything except directing and connecting the various chapters of your project.

[017Bluefield]

Thank you for the insight! Gonna keep this thread open, just in case there're other ways to handle this.