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I just came across Ren'Py and I am so impressed. I have been wanting to produce a VN for a few years now and now this looks to be within my grasp using this engine. My question relates to the kind of VN I want to make.

The concept of my VN is a mix of standard VN story, with role playing game mechanics AND language learning. To be specific I want to teach the user Chinese while they play. This would require that both English and Chinese fonts are enabled at the same time. Is this possible using the Ren'Py engine? Or perhaps enabling one language in one scene then enabling another in the next? What would the code look like for this? Thanks for any help that is offered!

Chinese fonts usually include English characters.

You can fairly easily enable a font on a per-character basis:

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Okay great! I was able to get it working. I only have one other question in this regard, does the user need to have the fonts installed themselves? I placed the .ttf in my game directory, and was unsure if the project was pulling the font as a resource or just using the installed one on my computer.

It will use the TTF from the game directory.

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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming" - Theodore Roosevelt