Maybe there is some confusion, you don't need to start a new RPG Maker project, you just need to start a new game (at the title screen, during a playtest, select "New Game" instead of "Continue").
If the script did not work, can you please show the full error trace from the dev tools console? It is hard to know for sure what is going wrong without seeing the full error message. You can access the dev tools console by pressing F8 in game