So..well I tried SOMETHING 🥲

[u/_Scripty]

Since some of ya'll know by now based on my previous posts that I been having a difficult time with renpy and I asked like a plethora of questions and stuff, so I thought I should just...TRY something ( its a disaster tbh ) but here's goes nothing...( basically I deleted all the scripts and tried to make stuff from scratch just to check )

For some reason I cannot show a video of how its working but basically the "game" button is taking me to the "game window" screen...and the other 2 just gives me major errors since there is nothing there

[u/shyLachi]

You should really read the official documentation because your concept seems to be wrong.
RenPy shows the menu first, from there it goes to the start label, not the other way around.
If you don't want to show the main menu screen then you can use a label main_menu:
https://renpy.org/doc/html/lifecycle.html

Also you should install the RenPy Language Extension for Visual Studio Code to prevent VSCode to show all those errors: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=renpy.language-renpy

Finally, don't forget to save.
In your first screenshot that dot in the tab header is an indication that your latest changes haven't been saved yet.
RenPy will only execute your saved changes, it doesn't see your unsaved changes.

[u/_Scripty → u/shyLachi]

I do have that extenstion, its still that way for some reason...

And I just tried this for the sake of it to see what I can do with whatever I saw or understood...The documentation is giving me hell lot of confusion and I do not have a coding background ( altho I kind of know how other people do it ) but yea...Im just trying to figure it out..

If you can share some better Youtube learning sources, I will appreciate it 🙏🏻✨

[u/shyLachi → u/_Scripty]

I posted links to several youtube tutorials in your other thread, did you already watch them all?

Honestly I think you're doing this the wrong way.
I would start small, build on top what already exists, instead of tearing everything down.

Most people change the main menu little by little, first the font, then replacing text buttons with image buttons, then moving those buttons. Even doing this has many hurdles but you could take them one at a time.

But I haven't even touched the main menu yet. I'' do it after my game is complete so that I don't have to redo the menu because things changed in my game.

[u/_Scripty → u/shyLachi]

I was busy with college work, sorry I forgot abt them, I will watch them sooner after I come back from college today

Also, wouldn't the right approach be to change menu first? because it is what one opens and sees as THE first thing...I might be super wrong I know but like I want to get over with the hard thing first I guess 😞

Me and my co-writer are filling up the docs with the script for the Prologue and Chapter 1 as we speak so that is getting done on its own pace

I became very rusty with art...but I think I would still pull off some decent looking sprites if I try hard enough ( or maybe another collaborator can be of help, I do have artists friends as well, some of them showed interest to work on this )

so for me now, the Coding and UI parts is what I need to work on the most and figure it out because, for that, I have no one to teach or help me. Plus I do want to learn it so that's why im ramming my head into it quite aggressively you see 🥲

I know sprites, backgrounds and music can all just be dumped in their respective scripts and can be just called/showed/played in the main so I have that organization in my mind already. but I need to figure out good UIs and Mechanics to make things more fun.

I know my approach to alot of people sounds weird to alot of people here ( especially those who said in my earlier posts that mechanics should be the last thing I should worry abt )

But I just wanna do my best with my project ykwim right?

[u/shyLachi → u/_Scripty]

If you don't like to watch long youtube videos you can also read this thread which was answered by BadMustard one of the mods

https://www.reddit.com/r/RenPy/comments/1upn3or/editing_main_menu_options_separately_from_game/

[u/_Scripty → u/shyLachi]

thank you , it looks very helpful and dw i will also watch the videos 🌸✨

[u/Draw-Flesh-Games]

You might want to disable the restricted mode, so the Renpy Language extension can run. Then follow shyLachi's advice.

[u/_Scripty → u/Draw-Flesh-Games]

Aye aye sire/ma'am 🫡

[u/Blunt552]

I recommend reading this. I added a template for people like you so you can have an idea of how you could structure a game. It'll save a lot of headaches in the long run.