First and foremost: this isn't a game, it's a sandbox environment to create your own looks & scenes or load/watch looks/scenes other people have created.
1) Therefore there's no "new game" or "load game" option -- what you're looking for is the "scene browser" to load scenes that are already in the game.
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2) You can find more scenes and looks and all kinds of stuff for VaM using the in-game "Hub Browser" (or you can visit the Hub outside of VaM
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), you can also find a lot of (mostly paid but pirated) stuff here on F95, for example
here.
3) There are scene that are several minutes in duration, just not the built-in ones that come with the main download.
4) Yes, it's possible. I (and others) have explained it a couple of times, for example
here.
5) Yes, use the "Open Top Menu" button from the menu.
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And some final advice: as you're obviously new to VaM, and because VaM has a very steep learning curve before you actually can "enjoy" playing with VaM, I'd suggest you watch some basic tutorials first, otherwise this will get very frustration very soon.
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which I found quite very helpful, and although it's quite "old" and has been recorded in VaM's VR mode, it helps to understand the basic concept of VaM.