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Adding a Splashscreen

A splash screen is an image or movie that appears when the game is starting up and before it goes to the menu. Usually these are logos or intro videos. The "splashscreen" label automatically plays before the main menu. However, same code applies to a splashscreen located anywhere in your game under a different label.

To add a text splashscreen to your game, insert code like this into anywhere in your script file (as long as it is not itself in a block):

label splashscreen:
    scene black
    with Pause(1)

    show text "American Bishoujo Presents..." with dissolve
    with Pause(2)

    hide text with dissolve
    with Pause(1)

    return

Here's another example of a splashscreen, this time using an image and sound:

image splash = "splash.png"

label splashscreen:
    scene black 
    with Pause(1)
    
    play sound "ping.ogg"

    show splash with dissolve
    with Pause(2)
    
    scene black with dissolve
    with Pause(1)

    return

And finally, with a movie file:

label splashscreen:

    $ renpy.movie_cutscene('movie.ogv')

    return