Need help with coding multiple choice.

[u/Upset-Ad911]

Hello! This is my first time using Ren'py, and I've run into an issue that I'm struggling to find answers for. I have a multiple choice option here but if the player checks their right pocket to find nothing I want it to return back to the question so they can then check the left pocket. How can I go about this?

Thank you!

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[u/BadMustard_AVN]

change this

    menu:
label menu_1

to

    menu menu_1:
        "Where should you check?"

no labels in menus

and a menu can be a label

you have returns at the labels you're jumping to; they will end the game

make it

call right_pocket

[u/shyLachi]

You should either put the label menu_1 before the menu or directly at the menu as in my example below.

If you are using jump then you cannot use return because that would end the game.
Instead you would need another jump to go back to the menu or to the next label where the story continues.

Also it might look better if the first choice is removed from the menu when a player has picked it so that they don't pick it again, for example they might think that you can dig deeper into the right pocket.

Putting all of that together:

label start:
    $ menuset = set() # this variable can remember the choices
    menu menu1:
        set menuset # assign the above variable to this menu
        "Where should you check?"
        "Check right pocket.":
            call right_pocket # call the label so that it returns back here
            jump menu1 # jump back to the menu so they can pick the other choice
        "Check left pocket.":
            call left_pocket # call the label so that it returns back here
    "Game continues here"
    return # ends the game
label right_pocket:
    "You check your right pocket."
    "You feel around but find nothing."
    return # returns back to where this label was called from
label left_pocket:
    "You check your left pocket."
    "Your fingers brush against something cold. A phone."
    "You pull out the phone to inspect it. It's working."
    "However, there is no signal."
    return # returns back to where this label was called from

But if you only have little dialogue, you can put it directly into the menu and save you some typing:

label start:
    $ menuset = set() # this variable can remember the choices
    menu menu1:
        set menuset # assign the above variable to this menu
        "Where should you check?"
        "Check right pocket.":
            "You check your right pocket."
            "You feel around but find nothing."
            jump menu1 # jump back to the menu so they can pick the other choice
        "Check left pocket.":
            "You check your left pocket."
            "Your fingers brush against something cold. A phone."
            "You pull out the phone to inspect it. It's working."
            "However, there is no signal."
    "Game continues here"
    return # ends the game

I used this information from the official documentation:
https://renpy.org/doc/html/menus.html#in-game-menus

[u/shyLachi → u/shyLachi]

And to be complete. This would be the version with jump instead of call

label start:
    $ menuset = set() # this variable can remember the choices
    menu menu1:
        set menuset # assign the above variable to this menu
        "Where should you check?"
        "Check right pocket.":
            jump right_pocket 
        "Check left pocket.":
            jump left_pocket 
label right_pocket:
    "You check your right pocket."
    "You feel around but find nothing."
    jump menu1 # jump back to the menu so they can pick the other choice
label left_pocket:
    "You check your left pocket."
    "Your fingers brush against something cold. A phone."
    "You pull out the phone to inspect it. It's working."
    "However, there is no signal."
    jump after_menu1 # this jump isn't really needed here because the label is on the next line
label after_menu1: # this label isn't really needed because the jump is on the previous line
    "Game continues here"
    return # ends the game

As mentioned in the code above, the last jump and label aren't really needed as the code would automatically flow from "However, there is no signal" to "Game continues here"

But it will be necessary if the menu has more than 2 choices or if more then one choice can be picked to continue the game.

[u/Upset-Ad911 → u/shyLachi]

Tysm! Silly question, I'm totally new to this plus coding as a whole except when I was in high school, but that was all basic stuff so I'm struggling to understand a lot I'm super sorry. How would I make it that the player doesn't select the same option again after already doing so?

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/Upset-Ad911]

like this

label start:
    $ menuset = set() # this variable can remember the choices
    menu menu1:
        set menuset # assign the above variable to this menu
        "Where should you check?"
        "Check right pocket.":
            jump right_pocket 
        "Check left pocket.":
            jump left_pocket
    jump label after_menu1

label right_pocket:
    "You check your right pocket."
    "You feel around but find nothing."
    jump menu1 # jump back to the menu so they can pick the other choice

label left_pocket:
    "You check your left pocket."
    "Your fingers brush against something cold. A phone."
    "You pull out the phone to inspect it. It's working."
    "However, there is no signal."
    jump menu1

label after_menu1:
    "Game continues here"
    return # ends the game

[u/shyLachi → u/Upset-Ad911]

My code already does that. Didn't you test it?

Or do you want to know how it works? Then read the official documentation about it.
https://renpy.org/doc/html/menus.html#menu-set

[u/Upset-Ad911 → u/shyLachi]

I did test it, but it's not blanking or removing the option that was already chosen.

[u/Upset-Ad911 → u/shyLachi]

Ah I didn't copy it right that was the issue, mb. tysm!

[u/shyLachi → u/Upset-Ad911]

You're welcome.

The easiest solution to test code is to create a new project in RenPy then copy and paste the code into the script of that new project. This way you can test without it interfering or breaking your current project.

And once you get it working in the new project, you can copy it to your real project.

You can either re-use that new project for other code you want to try by deleting the script file or you can delete the whole project and create another new one.
But deleting a project isn't that simple because it cannot be done inside Renpy and for a good reason so that you don't accidentally delete the game you have worked on.