Initialization

Initialization refers to the period of time before the game starts when the game is getting set up. When you hit Launch Game on the Ren’Py launcher, it takes it a few seconds before your game actually opens. The main tasks performed during that time are initializing values like variables and images, loading script files and menu screens into memory to display them, etc. To initialize a variable means to give it some value during this time, as opposed to giving it a value after the game has already started.