Best I can offer is to STOP trying to 're-invent the wheel' (IF it isn't broken; don't fix it.) Stick with what already works, UNTIL you can find a working way that you Can live with. Let us, as players deal with the 'Must start a New Game' issue until you Can successfully find the 'workaround'. (I mean right now it is Not such a big deal as we are in the early stages of game. IF this was a version 10+, that would be a different story). As for the music issue,... I usually play without it (I generally find music annoying and distracting when trying to read dialog. so I Mute/turn it off anyway)
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I’d already solved the issue around save games by the time I posted this status, so no worries. I’m glad you don’t have an issue (so much) with having to restart, but most players do. Take issue. It’s all solveable with the right tools and, more importantly, a good understanding of how Ren’Py works. After six years more or less full time working with it, I’m pretty good at it at this point.
Once during the development of Confusion I had to force a restart because the changes I had to make were far-reaching and extensive. (I had to rebalance all of the effects of choices made through the first seven chapters of the game.) But most of the time that restarts are forced, they’re avoidable if you just know why it happens. I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel. I’m just trying to tell a story in the best way I know how, without penalizing faithful fans for whom those reasons are unimportant.
As far as music goes, it’s part of the experience. Viewing a VN without music is to me like watching a silent movie. I once saw a cut of the original Star Wars movie without John Williams’ famous score. Just dialogue. It was a weird, unsettling experience. But some people don’t care for music, which is why the option exists to turn it off.
Thanks for your comments!
All I meant was Not to stress yourself out. IF things with the platforms you are working with are not working, find a way around it until it does.
All we can do, as players, is to wait for you anyway.
I have been around for awhile, playing VN games and reading Comics from DEV. having to re-starts because DEV or the game was changed in some way, (and in some ways Not always a bad thing; it can give a player a chance to refresh previous parts for story he/she might have forgotten. sometimes I actually choose to do a restart, other times the game f*cks up (a bug), I made a Bad choice neglecting to making a Save at a critical point) I have learned Alot from my mistakes...