First and second point aren't the issue. Third point doesn't seem to be the issue either, there are no logs about the game or any of its files in my antivirus.
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Alright, one last batch of ideas:
- Move the folder so it's at C:\GameJam or something. It's possible renpy isn't reacting well to non-ASCII characters in your user name - if that's not a problem then ignore this.
- Apparently antiviruses can still target programs like this even without leaving logs? It'll also do things like delete files without telling you. You'd have to redownload, whitelist it and maybe run the game as an administrator for good measure. (This nonsense is why I don't use antiviruses anymore - Windows Defender and some common sense have served me fine so far.)
Really hope one of those is enough to sort this out!
A couple of things I found from searching online:
- If you're on Windows, check your windows c++ libraries are up to date. I think it's Microsoft C++ 2008 that Renpy uses.
- If the file name/directory uses non-ASCII characters, ren'py may not be able to recognise it? I'm not sure how this one works but changing your system encoding might help.