I apologise if this has been asked before but it's difficult to search for exactly what I want and get the right results.
Currently my VN is in production, but I would like to offer the player an opportunity to replay the game but with the characters dressed in different outfits. However, I am unsure as to how to determine if the game has already been completed - so I don't know how to show the new mode link on the start menu (i.e. under what conditions). My guess would be some kind of variable that monitors game progress and once at 100% it would then be classed as "complete"?
I guess, in pseudo code, I mean something like this:
I also know next to nothing about coding, but I feel like the easiest thing would just be to have some kind of code that classifies the game as "complete" once you reach the end of the route.
If by "complete" you just mean one route has to be finished, I would just put something like "Complete = True" at the end of each one. (Possibly True/False is not what should be used for this, but I hope this gets across the general idea.)
If by "complete" you mean that every route/ending is completed once, you'll need something different. For this I would code it so that the FIRST time a route/ending is completed, the "complete counter" goes up by one. Once it reaches a certain point the outfit mode is unlocked.
You'll definitely need to find someone else who actually knows their way around Ren'Py for help on the specific code that you need to accomplish this, but I hope what I said above was clear and helpful!
Yes, I thought about that, but would a variable instantiated within the game still be recognisable in the menu and after completion of one route? I wonder if there is some kind of persistent variable which is saved somewhere outside of the 'walls' of the game itself and can be referenced literally anywhere, including in the menu / config etc.
thirstyoctopus wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:24 am
I wonder if there is some kind of persistent variable which is saved somewhere outside of the 'walls' of the game itself and can be referenced literally anywhere, including in the menu / config etc.
There is! Here's the documentation on persistent variables. Just set one of those to true at the end of your game, and you should be able to set whatever else you want to unlock only once it's true.
thirstyoctopus wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:24 am
I wonder if there is some kind of persistent variable which is saved somewhere outside of the 'walls' of the game itself and can be referenced literally anywhere, including in the menu / config etc.
There is! Here's the documentation on persistent variables. Just set one of those to true at the end of your game, and you should be able to set whatever else you want to unlock only once it's true.
