A Specific Question about Coding Style

[Ezeze]

I have several points in my game where the player has to make a large number of inter-related choices in a short span of time. In a situation like that, is it better to use nested menu commands or a large number of jump commands?

[Holland]

If these choices are entirely linear, then using nested menus would save you some time. But do you have multiple answers (or a combination of them) that lead to the same question branch? (Ex- answer1 and answer3 both lead you to question5.) You should use jumps in that case, even if it's just one or two outside of the nesting, to avoid having to repeat the same script twice.

[Taleweaver]

This is more of a Ren'Py-specific question.

Moving.

[fluxus]

What is 'a large number'?
Would it make sense to store user choices in a list, dict or other data structure, then decide on new menu choices or jumps on the basis of that data structure?

A dict like
{ "Bought the ring": True, "Pursued the other girl": True, "NumberOfSmiles": 4, "Bought the roses": False}
might make sense if there's a lot of choices and the player frequently returns to the same situation.

Though if there's continuous progress so that previous choices get more and more irrelevant, then branching (by jumps or menus) would likely be the better choice.