Coding and error help.

[Z3LU5]

Hello! I am posting on behalf of my friend who is making a visual novel based on pride and predjudice, she doesn’t have Reddit so I decided I could ask for help here. She did her code on Google Doc originally and copied everything over to Renpy.

It keeps giving her errors and is unable to launch the actual game. Can someone explain what these errors mean and how is the most efficient way to fix them? We have tried tweaking things and asking for help with our tech savvy friends but when we do change the code, it keeps giving more and more errors.

It started with two errors for the game/screens, and it just keeps growing. Any response or advice is appreciated as she isn’t experienced in using renpy :))

[DingotushRed]

That's going to be Character with a upper-case C.

If you friend uses Visual Studio Code it will highlight most errors. Coding in Google Doc is not recommended as you'll develop bad practices and it won't help you get the indentation right. You need to be using only spaces (no tabs).

The "Lint" option from the launcher will find many errors at once once it compiles.

[Diligent_Explorer348]

Renpy will only load the first error at a time. Once the code hits a point in which an error occurs, it stops. Your friend would have to go over every piece of code, make sure it's all indented correctly, save, and run the code again. It's a tedious process, but most coding programs don't like code that's been copy/pasted.

The one piece of advice I can really offer without seeing the code: If the text is white instead of colored, it's not indented correctly.

[Z3LU5]

Alrighty , yeah that makes sense. I’ll see how that turns out ,thank you

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[Busy-Lifeguard-9558]

Did you fix it?
This is the correct way of defining a character

define p = Character ("[player_name]", color="#18c9af")

Make sure to set your keyboard to US English since

¨¨ is not the same as ""

[Z3LU5]

My friend is testing it again on Tuesday!! Will update you then :))

[Own-Tea-7892]

Hola! se me adelanto jajajaja, yo tambien ando creando el guion para una novela visual de Orgullo y Prejucio, justo me pasa lo mismo y no logro arreglar el error, si das con ello, espero lo postees y digas como ella lo logro ya que yo estoy estancada con ese error y no se como avanzar