@local_minimum Thanks for the feedback. It was designed for Python 3, but yes, a quick find and replace does fix it. I had the symbol that kept appearing too but I couldn't work out how to fix it as the only encoding I knew that works was UTF8.
The game was quite rushed as it was very last minute, hence the confused nature. It didn't really work out like I wanted it to, but to be honest I was happy that it even worked. My other game, A Saga Of Candy Spex was more polished and probably more fun to play, although it has even less user choice.