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  <p class="lede">Catch the Ren'Py script bugs that compile fine and only crash in a player's save: unescaped [ and {, define-instead-of-default, tab indents, developer mode shipped. Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.</p>
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+ <p>A 28-line Ren&#x27;Py script that compiles without one complaint returns 14 findings - 10 errors and 4 warnings - the moment a solo visual novel developer running a Steam page puts a release gate over it.</p>
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+ <p>Not one of those 14 is a syntax error. Ren&#x27;Py already accepted the file. That is the trap: the Ren&#x27;Py compiler checks that your script parses, and almost nothing about whether a stranger can play it.</p>
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+ <p>Here is the fixture, <code>_fixtures/dirty.rpy</code>, trimmed to the lines that matter:</p>
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+ <p>Every one of those lines runs on your machine.</p>
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+ <p><code>[ player_name]</code> is the clearest one. Ren&#x27;Py reads a square bracket in dialogue as an interpolation. The space makes the name unknown, and the error does not arrive at build time - it arrives when a player reaches that line of that scene. If the line lives in chapter three, you find out from a forum post.</p>
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+ <p><code>{i}Late again, she thought.</code> opens an italic tag and never closes it. The scene keeps rendering, slanted, until something else closes it or the screen dies.</p>
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+ <p><code>define affection = 0</code> is subtler and more expensive. In Ren&#x27;Py, <code>define</code> values are not written into saves and are not rolled back. A variable the player changes must be <code>default</code>. Ship it as <code>define</code> and your save files quietly disagree with your script, forever, for everyone who already bought the game.</p>
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+ <p><code>persistent.seen_ending_a</code> is read with no <code>default persistent.seen_ending_a</code> anywhere. You will never see this bug. Your persistent file has held that key since the first test build. A first-time player reads <code>None</code> on the first run.</p>
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+ <p>And <code>config.developer = True</code> hands every player the console and the developer menu.</p>
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+ <p>Two more findings in that fixture never appear on a single line at all. There is no <code>config.save_directory</code> in the project, so saves are keyed to a generated directory and the next rename orphans them. And the build rules classify <code>game/<strong>.txt</code> but never <code>game/</strong>.rpy</code>, so readable script source travels inside the distribution.</p>
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+ <p>Those last two are the reason a chatbot cannot close this. A chatbot sees the snippet you paste. Whether <code>persistent.seen_ending_a</code> is defaulted in some other file, and whether <code>config.save_directory</code> exists anywhere in the project, are facts about the whole project, and they are the two findings that cost you player saves.</p>
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+ <p>The gate is 14 rules, grouped by what they take from you: four that break a player&#x27;s session, two that break their saves, four that ship something you did not mean to ship, four that break on a machine that is not yours.</p>
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+ <p>The same 28-line fixture, gated, is <code>_fixtures/clean.rpy</code>: same scene, same dialogue, 0 findings. <code>\[07:40\]</code> escaped, <code>{i}...{/i}</code> closed, <code>default affection = 0</code>, <code>default persistent.seen_ending_a = False</code>, <code>config.developer = &quot;auto&quot;</code>, <code>config.save_directory</code> set once and never touched again, <code>build.classify(&#x27;game/**.rpy&#x27;, None)</code>.</p>
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+ <p>The cost of getting this wrong is not abstract. Putting one title on Steam costs $100 in Steam Direct fees before a single crash report arrives, and every fix after launch is another build, another store update.</p>
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+ <p>Open a <code>.rpy</code> file, run the check, read the line numbers. One file is free, with no key and no counter.</p></div><h2 style="font:600 19px/1.3 system-ui,sans-serif;margin:30px 0 10px;color:#1b1f24">15 seconds — what it actually does</h2><video controls muted playsinline preload="none" poster="/img/promo/sku64314_result_card.jpg" style="width:100%;max-width:360px;border-radius:10px;display:block;margin:0 auto"><source src="/media/sku64314_short.mp4" type="video/mp4"></video><h2 style="font:600 21px/1.3 system-ui,sans-serif;margin:34px 0 6px;color:#1b1f24">Questions people ask</h2><details style="border-bottom:1px solid #e6e9ed;padding:10px 0"><summary style="cursor:pointer;font:600 15px/1.4 system-ui,sans-serif;color:#1b1f24">What does Ren&#x27;Py Release Gate actually do?</summary><p style="margin:8px 0 2px;font:400 14.5px/1.6 system-ui,sans-serif;color:#33404b">It reads your .rpy files and reports the lines that pass Ren&#x27;Py&#x27;s compile step but fail later: a bare square bracket that Ren&#x27;Py reads as a variable, a text tag opened and never closed, define used where default belongs, a persistent value with no default, tab indentation, and shipped developer settings. Fourteen rules, each with the fix.</p></details><details style="border-bottom:1px solid #e6e9ed;padding:10px 0"><summary style="cursor:pointer;font:600 15px/1.4 system-ui,sans-serif;color:#1b1f24">Who is it for?</summary><p style="margin:8px 0 2px;font:400 14.5px/1.6 system-ui,sans-serif;color:#33404b">Solo and small-team Ren&#x27;Py developers shipping visual novels to Steam, itch.io and Android. It is aimed at the moment before you press build: the point where your own save file hides bugs that a first-time player will hit on line one of chapter three.</p></details><details style="border-bottom:1px solid #e6e9ed;padding:10px 0"><summary style="cursor:pointer;font:600 15px/1.4 system-ui,sans-serif;color:#1b1f24">Why is a chatbot not enough?</summary><p style="margin:8px 0 2px;font:400 14.5px/1.6 system-ui,sans-serif;color:#33404b">A chatbot only sees the snippet you paste. It cannot tell you that persistent.seen_ending_a is read in script.rpy and defaulted in none of your other files, or that config.save_directory is missing from the project. Those two findings need every file at once, and they are the two that lose player saves.</p></details><details style="border-bottom:1px solid #e6e9ed;padding:10px 0"><summary style="cursor:pointer;font:600 15px/1.4 system-ui,sans-serif;color:#1b1f24">What is free and what needs a licence?</summary><p style="margin:8px 0 2px;font:400 14.5px/1.6 system-ui,sans-serif;color:#33404b">Free: open a .rpy file, run the check, get every finding in that file with line numbers and fixes. That is a finished job for a single file, forever, with no key. The licence adds the other axis: one sweep across every .rpy file in the workspace and an exported release report you keep.</p></details><details style="border-bottom:1px solid #e6e9ed;padding:10px 0"><summary style="cursor:pointer;font:600 15px/1.4 system-ui,sans-serif;color:#1b1f24">What would this cost without the tool?</summary><p style="margin:8px 0 2px;font:400 14.5px/1.6 system-ui,sans-serif;color:#33404b">Putting one title on Steam costs $100 in Steam Direct fees before you see a crash report. After launch, each fix is a rebuild. The licence is $29 once, one key per person or CI seat,.</p></details><details style="border-bottom:1px solid #e6e9ed;padding:10px 0"><summary style="cursor:pointer;font:600 15px/1.4 system-ui,sans-serif;color:#1b1f24">Why not just ask ChatGPT or another AI chat?</summary><p style="margin:8px 0 2px;font:400 14.5px/1.6 system-ui,sans-serif;color:#33404b">A general AI chat answers from training data with a cutoff date, cannot read your repository and names no rule version. Ren&#x27;Py Release Gate checks the file you open against 14 rules from a rule set dated 2026-09-20, and points at the exact line with the fix. 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