Can the achievements code work with steam?
In-depth ingame achievement support for Ren'Py that plugs into the Steam backend. · By
Hello! You'll need to use screen language to adjust the popup screen. Unfortunately that's out of the scope of what I can help with on the forums here, but you can check out my website for some tutorials on screen language.
Hello! Thank you so much for your work. Is there a way to make it so that an achievement has a hidden description by default, but that description gets unhidden once a condition is reached or that another given achievement is granted? This would be a useful way to, let's say, give hints on how to unlock it without being too spoilery if the player hasn't completed the main story yet. Thanks in advance for your help!
Heya! That functionality isn't currently included, but it's relatively simple to add a condition property in the constructor (__init__) and update the description property method to account for what's in the condition. Just remember you'll need to use eval() on the condition, and the condition will need to be a string, so it can be evaluated in real-time and not just when the game is launched. Hope that helps get you started!
Ah, I'm kind of new at coding especially within Python. I attempted to type "if platinum_achievement.has()" and it ended up just showing an error.
Code itself :
"
if platinum_achievement.has()
e "This is a Test"
"
Then the error code
```
I'm sorry, but errors were detected in your script. Please correct the
errors listed below, and try again.
File "game/script.rpy", line 74: reached end of line when expecting ':'.
if platinum_achievement.has()
^
Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 8.3.6.25022803
Tue Mar 11 22:06:59 2025
```
I apologize if this might be a stupid question
Hello! Thanks a lot for making this.
For now I've only tested 1 example and it seems to work, but I want to make sure. I'm getting this error in VSCode:
"store.custom_achievements": Use of a store variable that has not been defaulted.
It points to line 543 in achievement_backend.rpy file. Do I need to default it to something?
It's likely showing both popups in the same place on top of one another - if you look at the default achievement_popup screen, there's a special bit:
## Allows multiple achievements to be slightly offset from each other. ## This number should be at least as tall as one achievement. default achievement_yoffset = num*170 frame: style_prefix 'achieve_popup' ## The transform that makes it pop out at achievement_popout() ## Offsets the achievement down if there are multiple yoffset achievement_yoffset
That yoffset bit makes sure that if there are multiple achievements shown at the same time, they get offset so they're not stacking on top of each other. Make sure you have that code, or something similar, in your own popup screen!
Thank you! I do have that yoffset part in my code. When I toggle the achievements in the gallery, the multiple popups show stacking on each other just fine, but in the game, only one popup show up at a time .
Here is the code for granting two achievements at the same time, I think it works because the if A is unlocked and I have B, the C will get unlocked in the gallery, its just that C popup doesn't show in the game.
Currently, I'm using renpy 8.5.2
$ ending_A.grant() if ending_A.has() and ending_B.has(): $ ending_C.grant()
All right, unfortunately I don't really have any further actionables - it sounds like things are set up properly if you see multiple achievements from the gallery, so it probably makes sense to debug around the time you're trying to grant your achievements. Do you have any LinkedAchievements or similar? Usually in a case like this, where you automatically grant an achievement if two others have been earned, LinkedAchievement is useful. I'd also include some debug lines like "Do you have ending_A achievement? [ending_A.has()]" to see what the values for everything are. It might be that you already have ending_C's achievement accidentally or something, so its popup is not appearing.
Hi, is it possible to use a function to delete the persistent data for achievement? When I use the "Delete Persistent" option in renpy dev mode, all the achievements got reset to the initial stage, but when I use $ persistent._clear(progress=True) ingame, it doesn't do anything to the achievement (other persistent value got cleared, though).
Or is there another way to do it?
You can run achievement.clear_all() (https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/achievement.html#achievement.clear_all) to clear all achievements.
Hi! Sorry in advance if this is a silly question, I'm still new to Renpy. Is there a way to show a timestamp (a month, to be exact) in another language? I'm making a game in Russian, my Renpy is in Russian too, and I can see that the timestamp can be shown in Russian (e.g. in slots when saving/loading). But I can't quite figure out how to do the same when working with your code. I have no problem with formatting, the question is about the names of the months: I want "Получено 18 мая 2026", but it's shown as "Получено 18 May 2026". Thank you so much for all your work!!
I looked more closely into how Ren'Py handles the FileTime time stamps - try changing the get_timestamp function in the backend as follows:
def get_timestamp(self, format=_("%b %d, %Y @ %I:%M %p{#achievement_timestamp}")):
"""
Return the timestamp when this achievement was granted,
using the provided string format.
"""
if self.has():
format = renpy.translation.translate_string(format)
return _strftime(format, self._timestamp)
else:
return ""
And let me know if that works!
upd: I found a workaround by using the second, get_timestamp method and by just redacting stuff in quotes lol, that's good enough for me. I should've done that from the start, sorry for the trouble 😞
But yeah, if you work with translated Renpy and use text a.timestamp when showing a timestamp it still wil be in English.