Game keeps starting for no reason.

[KnuffelBeestje]

Warning: I'm a complete beginner and I don't really know anything about Python tbh

I'm currently creating a loading system instead of using the Save Selector.
I just made a simple label like this:

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label loadgame_label:
    if renpy.can_load("GameSave"):
        $renpy.load("GameSave")
    else:
        $renpy.notify("No save files have been found")
    return

But, once there's no save file found, the game automatically starts for no reason.
I use

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Jump("loadgame_label")

in order to activate the label.
I already tried to use Call instead of Jump but this froze my game, it kept looping the label.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Maybe I forgot something?

Thanks.

[papillon]

Some basic troubleshooting steps. If your code is doing something for no reason whatsoever that you can see, attempt to isolate where the strange behavior is happening.

When something really crazy is going on I often find it handy to put in a ton of say statements so that I'm stepping through every stage of the process and I know exactly which line of code is doing something unexpected.

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label start:

  "Here is the start of the game. This part worked!"
  "Now I'm going to jump to a label."
  call loadgame_label
  "I have now returned from a label, my life is over, end game."
  $renpy.quit()
  
label loadgame_label:
    "I jumped successfully, good start!"
    "Trying to load a game now."
    if renpy.can_load("GameSave"):
        "Loadable game found. Loading..."
        $renpy.load("GameSave")
    else:
        "No loadable game found. Trying to notify."
        $renpy.notify("No save files have been found")
        "Notified. Now returning."
    return

obviously my text is a bit silly there and I'm not actually checking to see if that will run, just trying to give a general idea of how you can investigate weird behavior

[KnuffelBeestje]

I'm currently juming to the label from the main menu.
Maybe this gives you more clues on what's wrong as you're thinking that you jump to a label from the game start.
It seems only to be not working when I jump from a screen.

Code:

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 textbutton _("Load Game") action Jump("loadgame_label") 

-> from the navigation screen

[KnuffelBeestje]

Isn't there a way to just end a label and do nothing else?
Maybe this will resolve the problem.

[KnuffelBeestje]

UPDATE:
I fixed it, I just re-called the navigation screen and removed "return".