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So the project I'm moving on is long, and I'm trying to release it in smaller chunks, episodically, but I'm unsure about how to carry choices over across the episodes.

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It LOOKS like this is probably what I'm looking for, right?

So would I create a NEW game in RenPy, copy/paste over the code that is persistent across episodes (ex. sprite/image data, menu stuff), then edit the code for choices in the previous episode that should carry over, create a 'key', paste that same 'persistent data' code into Episode 2, and use that?

I'm having trouble finding out how to do this outside of a simple 'did you finish part 1?' context.

As an example of the sort of thing I'm trying to do, in Episode 1, the reader might receive a text message from someone asking if they want to hang out. If they said yes, then in episode 2, they would have a separate scene where they hang out with that character.

So, for example, would it look something like this?

init python:
mp = MultiPersistent("MyGame")

label start:

# Reply to text

$ ep1text = True
$ mp.save()

p "( Cool, I'll catch you then. )"

And the second part:

init python:
mp = MultiPersistent("MyGame")

label start:

if ep1text:
"You your friend you'd meet them today, better get ready."
jump HangOut
else:
"You're in the mood to be by yourself for a while."
jump NoHangOut

Close, but not quite. Your variable has to be on the “mp” object in order to end up in the multipersistent store
See https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/persiste ... ersistence

Ah, thanks! I will give that a look!