Displaying and remember points made after exiting the game(SOLVED)

[beastcarving]

I put this in the screens.rpy under the main_menu

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    text "  Points Made: [made_points]"

In the script

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init:
    $ made_points =0

And I added this to a label

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$ made_points +=1

The problem I'm having is when I press exit on the game and reopen it the points displayed on the Main_menu are at Zero again. How do I make it remember the points that were made?

The other issue I'm having is earning the same points when simply going back to replay a part of the game. I want to make these point count ONCE when you come across one of these:

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$ made_points +=1

just to make earning that point honest without being able to cheat by going back 20 times to win 20 point that you didn't necessary win fairly.

[gas]

The thing you're asking is basically how to have a player overall score, not linked to the single playthrough.
Sond easy but in fact require a number of things.

The fist one is to use a SET() instead of a simple tally counter. A SET() can contain just a single copy of an element.
To have such set work on a global meaning, it should be a persistent.
When you want to deal a point, just add a keyword to the set. You can compute the overall score by counting the elements in the set.

This is a very silly example, but should work.

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label start:
    python:
        if persistent.score == None:
            persistent.score = set()
    e "Welcome to my proxy game!"
    e "Now you'll get a bonus point..."
    $ persistent.score.add("bonus")
    e "If you play multiple times, anyway, your score doesn't increase!"
    $ the_score = len(persistent.score)
    e "Your score is [the_score]!"
    e "Try to launch again the game and see it for yourself."
    

The trick is to use
$ persistent.score.add("x")
with an "x" keyword different all the time, so you don't have sums even after multiple playthrough.

[Imperf3kt]

https://www.renpy.org/dev-doc/html/pyth ... -statement

https://www.renpy.org/dev-doc/html/pyth ... -statement

[gas]

https://www.renpy.org/dev-doc/html/pyth ... -statement

("The problem I'm having is when I press exit on the game and reopen it the points displayed on the Main_menu are at Zero again. How do I make it remember the points that were made?") - isn't that the persistent case of use?

[Imperf3kt]

https://www.renpy.org/dev-doc/html/pyth ... -statement

("The problem I'm having is when I press exit on the game and reopen it the points displayed on the Main_menu are at Zero again. How do I make it remember the points that were made?") - isn't that the persistent case of use?

Yes, and you covered that well.
I should have explained better, but I was referring to the use of init instead of the more preferred way of using define/default

[beastcarving]

I'm having a hard time adding and subtracting from the score.
Would I write something like this to deduct from the overall score:

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$ persistent.score.minus(3) = the_score

and to add more than one point at a time would I need to do something like:

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        python:
            if persistent.score == None:
                persistent.score = set()
        $ persistent.score.add(+30)"bonus3") #rather than $ persistent.score.add("bonus3,bonus4",bonus5,bonus6, etc... bonus30)
        $ the_score = len(persistent.score)

Neither of these work. I was wondering how to do something like this.