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Practicing my male figure drawing and my sketching like mad. It's been a long time since I drew, people. Longer than some of you have been alive. :-) This might be the main character in the game, Mark. It would be nice if the player could choose his/her own name, but not quite sure how to code that ...

4. Why does reversing the harem make it okay? Well, just with regards to this question...personally I don't have a problem with polygamous cultures, except when women are discouraged to ever be ones having multiple husbands. I mean, why the double standard? Aside from that, if adults find it more ef...

In case anyone is interested, I installed IthoughtsHD on my iPad, which exports to free plane and free mind.

It was around $10...not free, but it's been amazing to use so far, if anybody has an iPad and wants to mindmap their plots. Thanks again for the tips!

Thanks for the feedback, sciencewarrior! Yeah, I guess I went pretty blurry on the photo! And I kinda like the pink, though I have no idea WHY a door would be that pink. Will try to do something about that and the clutter. As for your audience, I think that if you are going more for the romantic, &q...

I really like your art!!! For art without any kind of shading, it looks amazingly polished! Cool setting. One little problem I had with demo...I dunno if it's my screen, but I kept trying to turn up the brightness because the banner behind the text seemed dark to me, specifically in the upper left c...

I agree with Lvuer...if you put this into another kind of setting.

In such a setting, you could also allow women to be the head of the clan and you can either aquire multiple husbands or wives. In which case I'd definitely play it. It reminds me a little of King of Dragon Pass, which I loved.

I guess I should sign this guestbook? Hi, I'm Obscura and I'm in Northern California! I'm making my first visual novel, not sure if its yaoi or bara. I guess because I'm female it's yaoi, though I have a feeling it might appeal more to gay men than hetero girls. It will also have more Western-style ...

I'm going to try that tool tomorrow, OokamiKasumi. I'm hoping I can also find a similar tool for my ipad/ipod so I can write while away from my computer. FreePlane has made designing my plot-lines a snap, seriously. I can even test drive each branch individually to make sure all options actually re...

Oof, perspective and contrast...I'm not even that far into those considerations for bg making. Right now it's, "I wonder what this filter does?!?"

Hopefully one day.

The most important thing for your first game, in my opinion - keep it short, keep it simple. Just get it done and out the door. Your first effort won't be a masterpiece, but you'll learn a massive amount of useful stuff to use in future and get a taste of the process of actually finishing and relea...

I should add, the first tutorial I used was the one SusantheCat suggested to me: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=14215 . It's OokamiKasumi's, and is indeed awesome, though it didn't quite work for me in GIMP (probably because I don't know GIMP well enough to follow it prope...

Congratulations, Obscura. You're progressing by leaps and bounds. For someone with very little experience, you made a very good character. I think Cody's forearm needs some work, it's a bit too long (were you trying to avoid drawing his hands? :) ) but it takes years for some people to get to this ...

I'll ask you a few questions, cause I'll eventually start playing loads of ren'py releases on this Fourm when I get my new laptop, i agree beefcake does come to mind. So which audience would you go for?, gay or straight? I'll admit that I don't actually mind a bit of yaoi, but I've never seen any w...

Trying new background techniques in GIMP as I mentioned yesterday.

Going to have to keep playing around with this, get rid of the graininess and extraneous elements.

As always, any criticisms or input appreciated!

I should also add these are still rough placeholders, and I'm hoping to create much better looking sprites and backgrounds as I continue. A big problem in my sprite-making right now is that I don't know how to work cleanly (the sprites have all kinds of stray lines and pixels) so that is one major t...