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Wow, this was all done in Ren'py?

I tried the demo, and I don't see any bugs to report. However, some of the accepted words seem a bit weak. The game accepted both "anti" (prefix only) and "tom" (person's name) as valid words. What dictionary source does it use?

This kind of game looks perfect for my niece.

From dictionary.com:
anti (noun) - a person who is opposed to a particular practice, party, policy, action, etc
tom (noun) - the male of various animals, as the turkey.

Susan

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Thanks for your time and for your comments. First, yes, NagiQ was totally done in Ren'Py. Further, we've tried to be kind of broad with the accepted words, as the game turns a bit difficult in later levels and having a longer list of valid words helps a lot.

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Aww I love this! I used to play word puzzles all the time as a kid. Congrats on your release!

Okay, I can understand tom as a male turkey, but then I also tried Michael, Alice, Anna, Lisa, and Orville. Every first name I could think of ended up as a valid word. Tom was just one example.

As for the word anti-, I guess it's more widely accepted than I thought. Personally, I would never expect to see someone referred to as just plain anti. Trying re- got the same reaction, but just like Fe and Al (also accepted by the game), it has a dictionary entry just for being a symbol on the periodic table of elements.


Oh, that makes sense.

The game looks really nice. It's great to see more stuff like this coming from Ren'py.

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Finished:
- Zayay [Otome?][BxPlayer][NaNo 2013]
- Tortichki [Drag&Drop mini game]

Do you mind if I ask why? I'm a strong proponent of "whatever works", but I doubt I'm alone in thinking it's an unusual choice here.

Nice graphics, btw.

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We've been using Ren'Py for rapid prototyping. In fact, we've already completed two educational projects starting from prototypes built with Ren'Py (and later implemented in C++). Specifically, I love the clear separation between logic and UI promoted by Ren'Py's screen language. Screen language + transforms are a really powerful combination. For NagiQ, we started with a Ren'Py prototype too. However, our first tests revealed that the game was responsive enough and no performance lags were noticed. So we decided to fully implement NagiQ in Ren'Py.

Further, NagiQ is a 2D word game, and Ren'Py provides wonderful support for 2D graphics and for text. I think "unusual" would be doing a 3D racing game in Ren'Py, but I wouldn't dare to tag it as an impossible task.

In short, Ren'Py is very powerful. That's why.

Thanks to all for your comments.

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This thread brings me back some fond memories. NagiQ was our first game, and we learned quite a lot during the process. In retrospective, building a word game with RenPy was a great decision: RenPy's cross-platform abilities allowed for painless deployment on several operating systems. That's wonderful for starters! And the ATL! And the Screen language! RenPy is such a fine piece of software

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