wider panel added, text resized in About page, still not entirely sold on this, might do a version where it is integrated into the old menu layout

game/gui.rpy

@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ define gui.title_text_size = 75
 define gui.main_menu_background = "gui/main_menu.png"
 define gui.game_menu_background = "gui/game_menu.png"
 define gui.extras_submenu_background = "gui/overlay/extras_submenu.png"
+define gui.extras_submenu_panel = "gui/overlay/extras_submenu_panel.png"
 
 ## Dialogue ####################################################################
 ##

game/screens.rpy

@@ -560,36 +560,72 @@ style return_button:
 screen about():
 
     tag menu
+    style_prefix "main_menu"
 
-    ## This use statement includes the game_menu screen inside this one. The
-    ## vbox child is then included inside the viewport inside the game_menu
-    ## screen.
-    use game_menu(_("About"), scroll="viewport"):
+    add gui.main_menu_background
+    add gui.extras_submenu_panel
+    
+    ## This empty frame darkens the main menu.
+    frame:
+        pass
 
-        style_prefix "about"
+    ## The use statement includes another screen inside this one. The actual
+    ## contents of the main menu are in the navigation screen.
 
-        vbox:
+    vbox:
+        xpos 1240
+        ## yalign 0.03
+        ypos 800
+        label "[config.name!t]"
+        text _("Version [config.version!t]\n")
 
-            label "[config.name!t]"
-            text _("Version [config.version!t]\n")
+        ## gui.about is usually set in options.rpy.
+        if gui.about:
+            text "[gui.about!t]\n"
 
-            ## gui.about is usually set in options.rpy.
-            if gui.about:
-                text "[gui.about!t]\n"
+        text _("{size=24}Made with {a=https://www.renpy.org/}Ren'Py{/a} [renpy.version_only].\n\n[renpy.license!t]\nTo find more information about the game (and its source code) please visit {a=https://www.snootgame.xyz/}our website{/a}.{/size}")
+        textbutton "Back to Extras" action ShowMenu("extras")
+    vbox:
+        xpos 1940
+        yalign 0.03
+        if persistent.splashtype == 1:
+            add "gui/sneedgame.png"
+        else:
+            add "gui/snootgame.png"
+    vbox:
+        spacing 25
+        xpos 1885
+        yalign 0.9
+        textbutton _("Help") action ShowMenu("help")
+        textbutton _("About") action ShowMenu("about")
+        textbutton _("Updates") action ShowMenu("updates")
+        imagebutton auto "gui/button/menubuttons/gallerybutton_%s.png" action ShowMenu("gallery")
+        textbutton _("Return") action ShowMenu("main_menu")
 
-            text _("Made with {a=https://www.renpy.org/}Ren'Py{/a} [renpy.version_only].\n\n[renpy.license!t]\nTo find more information about the game (and its source code) please visit {a=https://www.snootgame.xyz/}our website{/a}.")
-            textbutton "Back to Extras" action ShowMenu("extras")
+style main_menu_frame is empty
+style main_menu_vbox is vbox
+style main_menu_text is gui_text
+style main_menu_title is main_menu_text
+style main_menu_version is main_menu_text
 
-## This is redefined in options.rpy to add text to the about screen.
-define gui.about = ""
+style main_menu_frame:
+    xsize 420
+    yfill True
 
+    background "gui/overlay/main_menu.png"
 
-style about_label is gui_label
-style about_label_text is gui_label_text
-style about_text is gui_text
+style main_menu_vbox:
+    xalign 1.0
+    xoffset -30
+    xmaximum 1200
+    yalign 1.0
+    yoffset -30
 
-style about_label_text:
-    size gui.label_text_size
+style main_menu_text:
+    properties gui.text_properties("main_menu", accent=True)
+
+style main_menu_title:
+    properties gui.text_properties("title")
 
 ## Gallery screen ################################################################
 ##