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Hello all, since this is my first post I would first like to thank the creators of Ren'Py for creating such an simple yet powerful engine. I'm sure that next versions of Ren'Py will be even better and I can't wait for them.

Now with my problem. I'm trying to create a game that has a similar interface like Digital - A Love Story. It would be a interface of an imaginary OS.

The problem is I don't know where to start, so I need so help. I've looked in to the code of Digital, and it was really hard to understand. Actually, I didn't understand anything at all!

I've already made some small games with Ren'Py and I fairly know how it works. I just need some pointers how should I start. I do realize that this isn't easy to do, but I'm ready to learn.

Here's my tutorial on customizing the GUI:

Customizing the Textbox
Customizing Menus

Hope they help.

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[Tutorial] How to Customize the Textbox
[Tutorial] How to Customize Game Menus
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Thank you for your reply.

But I'm afraid you got it wrong. I'm looking to customize the in-game interface. Not the Menus and Textboxes.

When you play Digital, you have a Desktop of an OS and you have various icons that you can click. That's what I want to create. You can download Digital to see what I'm after.

Screen Language, imagemaps, and styling are what I touched upon in those tutorials. What you want is either the UI functions (not recommended) or Screen Language.

http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html

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I apologize in advance for being extremely opinionated.
[Tutorial] How to Customize the Textbox
[Tutorial] How to Customize Game Menus
Icon art by Mocha07734

Thank you. I'll look in to tomorrow.

Load Digital into Ren'Py and look at the code - you'd be surprised how much of it is actually achieved through standard text-boxes and label jumps. The email/message system isn't even as in-depth as it seems when compared to examples of such systems in the cookbook. Creating the fake OS is actually an illusion - the functionality of Ren'Py isn't really changed, just made to look different.

The tutorials you have been supplied with, combined with entries in the cookbook, should be sufficient to create your own fake OS.

Thanks Duck. I've looked at some tuts online and Screen Language isn't that complicated. Once I get hang off it I'm sure it'll be easy and almost natural.

This thread will be a year old tomorrow but I'm hoping I can still get a response.

How do I access Digital's code? Through Ren'Py or the Python script editor I explored Digital.app but its full of different files. I'm wondering if there is a single file that contains the main script and how I go about opening it. If not, if its all just organized by these multiple files, which ones should I be looking at to find out how the GUI was made.

Just open the.rpy files located in the game folder.

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