HELP!! Build.directory_name still won't cooperate!

[ColorWheeler]

Hello Lemma Soft forums! For the past few days I've been using Ren'Py to build a little lesson for a design project. The game itself is finished, but now it refuses to cooperate when I try to export it under Build Distributions.

Here's the error message I get:

Building distributions failed:
The build.directory_name variable may not include the space, colon, or semicolon characters.

Except that my build name doesn't contain spaces, colons, or semicolons.

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## A short name for the game used for executables and directories in the built
## distribution. This must be ASCII-only, and must not contain spaces, colons,
## or semicolons.

define build.name = "color_module"

The folder itself has underscores in place of spaces. I've managed to pack and zip the tutorial games with no issues and I don't know what could be causing the error. This project is due in two days and I need to export it as soon as possible! Any assistance at all would be appreciated.

[Imperf3kt]

That message refers to the name you pick when building the distribution. You should be asked to name your project, that is where the error occurs, I believe.

[Remix]

Are there any non Ascii characters (spaces, colons etc) in the filepath to your game folder?
(e.g. C:\My Docs\renpy = bad, E:\vn\renpy\colour_module\ = good)

[Imperf3kt]

Are there any non Ascii characters (spaces, colons etc) in the filepath to your game folder?
(e.g. C:\My Docs\renpy = bad, E:\vn\renpy\colour_module\ = good)

spaces in the directory name do not matter, for example, this works perfectly fine:
E:\renpy\menu test

As you can see, building a distribution of this had no trouble.


The issue is this bit:

This cannot have any spaces or non ASCII characters in it.

Ensure build.name found in options.rpy, is named sensibly. Example:
define build.name = "menutest"
instead of
define build.name = "menu test"