Trouble with "romance points"

[Biotikos]

Hello, community.

I've been using romance points since I started my project in 2015 (yea, that's a long time) and never had problems, but it's been sometime since I haven't done debugging and I am stuck with a problem with numerical variables.

In a separate file, named "definitions.rpy", in the "game" folder, I have the definition:

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# Puntos de afecto
$ kisakiap = 0

Then, on the game, I called it:

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menu: 
     "Quedarme.":
         $ irse = False
         "No, no merece la pena."
         "Ya he tenido bastante con ese mini-rechazo que me ha hecho Kotone."
         "Mordí de nuevo el melon pan, y abrí mi refresco."
         "Souta puso en el medio de los tres una caja de Pockys, e invitó a Kotone a sentarse con nosotros."
     "Ir a hablar con ella.":
         $ irse = True
         [b]$ kisakiap += 1[/b]
         "Me levanté, dejando el melon pan en el suelo, y caminando hacia la puerta."

Results are this (complete traceback)

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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 1747, in script
    $ kisakiap += 1
  File "game/script.rpy", line 1747, in <module>
    $ kisakiap += 1
NameError: name 'kisakiap' is not defined

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 1747, in script
    $ kisakiap += 1
  File "C:\Users\Ray\Downloads\renpy-6.99.12.4-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 814, in execute
    renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
  File "C:\Users\Ray\Downloads\renpy-6.99.12.4-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 1719, in py_exec_bytecode
    exec bytecode in globals, locals
  File "game/script.rpy", line 1747, in <module>
    $ kisakiap += 1
NameError: name 'kisakiap' is not defined

Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 6.99.12.4.2187
Eien no Mirai 0.81d

Does anyone has an idea why is this happening?

Thank you!

[Scribbles]

you might need to use default instead of $ where you define it

default kisakiap = 0

[Dovahkitteh]

You could also try having them in an init block, as this is what I have for my own game and it works fine:

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init:

    #Route determination points
    $lin_p = 0

And then calling them later is just

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$lin_p += 1

[trooper6]

Current best practices is to define your variables outside of any blocks using default. (Except for persistent variables which should use define)

[Biotikos]

Thanks to you all!

I fixed it as you explained me and it worked <3

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I'll properly credit you all in the game's credits as in our Twitter where I have uploaded the screencap from above (?