How to Play from any point in Game?

[DoctorPervic]

Hi, I'm a newbe in Renpy game dev, I am wondering if there is a way to play your game in development from any place in the code.

For example. Lets say I have over 10,000 lines of code but I do not want to play my game from start to Finnish just to test a few lines of code at the end of my game. or in the middle of game.

So is there a way to be able to play the game from a specific part of code?

any help is greatly appreciated. thanks so much.

 

[scrumbles]

Say you have a scene you want to test, e.g. the 4th scene of the 2nd chapter.
First, label that scene, i.e. make the scene start with a line like this (I have omitted the spaces before "label"):

label Chap2_scene4:

Then you have at least two solutions:

2) insert at the beginning of the story (but after you have defined all the variables) a jump statement and reload the game (again, I have omitted the spaces):

jump Chap2_scene4

Even better, you can create an in-game menu with "jump" instructions leading to the main chapters.

1) open the console (press Shift+O as in Oscar) and type (no spaces required before the jump statement):

jump Chap2_scene4

Press Enter to execute the statement, then press Esc to quit the console. Play the scene.
You can use the console to define new variables or to change the value of the existing ones.
The console remember what you have typed. Use the arrow keys (↑, ↓) to browse the console history.

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I'm sure other devs will give you a better answer, but at least you can start to test your game.

 

[DoctorPervic]

Thank you so very much will look at the link.