Hello again,
I've been sitting on this for a bit trying to think of how to explain what I'm seeing with these errors.
Basically when building a game in an engine, the engine functions as a framework code that I then put my personal game code into to create a game that works - so there's the Renpy code which is part of the game engine and there's my code for Gilded Shadows specifically.
The errors that you're getting appear to be errors from problems in the engine framework - the code of the game engine itself, not the code I created for my game. Basically core components like necessary variables or attributes defined in Ren'pys engine files seem to be missing.
This suggests something is happening during download that is corrupting or removing those files.
This means it's not something I can just go in and fix because it doesn't seem to be an issue with the code I created.
I just wanted to explain this because I know it may feel like I'm just throwing random solutions at the wall but these are the only things I know to try to get a functioning download. Here are some additional suggestion (these will all require removing the game and downloading from scratch each time)
- check anti-virus and firewall settings to make sure it's not somehow interacting with the download.
- if you are using the itch app, try downloading the zip file directly from the game page and unzipping to your desktop and launching from there instead.
If those don't work, my last resort would be to potentially send you a Steam key and see if using Steam can bypass whatever is happening during the download process here because even the Itch launcher is essentially just downloading the same zip file to your app data folder. But Steam's launcher works a bit differently. So maybe that could help?
Let me know if those two solutions help and if not, we can discuss if you'd like to try a Steam key and see if attempting it over there works.
~Esh