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by Fox Lee
Wed Mar 30, 2016 7:37 pm
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: Portraying SFX?
Replies: 9
Views: 1318

Re: Portraying SFX?

It's fine to tell the player that Eileen is mad, No, it is not. That is degrading into telling rather than showing, which is bad writing regardless of the presence of supporting assets. If Eileen is angry enough, the content of her dialogue alone (or her act of initiating a silent treatment) would ...
by Fox Lee
Wed Mar 30, 2016 12:26 am
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: Portraying SFX?
Replies: 9
Views: 1318

Re: Portraying SFX?

Visual novels are novels at heart. Of all the involved elements, it's the text, and not any other asset, which is meant to be capable of standing on its own. Everything else is supplementary, no matter how well the other assets provide their support or even if they wind up taking the spotlight, as ...
by Fox Lee
Sat Mar 26, 2016 4:16 am
Forum: Works in Progress
Topic: Swan x Swan [YuriJam][Romance][Fantasy][NaNo16] (Previews!)
Replies: 25
Views: 7835

Re: Swan x Swan [YuriJam][Romance][Fantasy][NaNo16] (Preview

Last week of NaNoRenO! Things are looking... good, probably! Most everything but the actual scripting is done, and since I write the script as I'm putting the pieces together, that's always the last thing for me. Anyway, I've been quiet lately, so here's some previews! http://nonsense.munchlax.org/s...
by Fox Lee
Sat Mar 26, 2016 12:20 am
Forum: WiP: NaNoRenO
Topic: Fare Thee Well [Kinetic] [NaNoRenO 2016] [COMPLETE!]
Replies: 10
Views: 5607

Re: Fare Thee Well [Kinetic] [Drama, Historical] [NaNoRenO 2

GGGSHSFHK those first character concepts are so effortlessly beautiful! I mean I'm sure plenty of effort went into them, but they're so simple and gorgeous, you (or your artist?) make it look easy >3>; Those faces are so perfect, I honestly spent a while just staring at them. Enchanting. If it's on ...
by Fox Lee
Sat Mar 26, 2016 12:12 am
Forum: Creative Commons
Topic: ███ Namastaii's Assets ███
Replies: 46
Views: 18853

Re: █Namastaii's Resources [Updated March 25 2016*]

What a beautiful, lighthearted-feeling GUI. It will definitely be on my radar next time I do a cute/sweet game :D Thank you for sharing your lovely work!
by Fox Lee
Tue Mar 22, 2016 3:10 am
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: Portraying SFX?
Replies: 9
Views: 1318

Re: Portraying SFX?

I've been thinking about this for my NaNo this year... I want the game to be playable by people who can't hear, or don't want to turn on sound, but I hate writing sound effects into the text. My conclusion is that animations or transitions may be my best bet. If I was doing something lighthearted I ...
by Fox Lee
Sat Mar 19, 2016 11:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The VN or The KN?
Replies: 30
Views: 4708

Re: The VN or The KN?

I think both are great. I don't mind at all if a VN doesn't give me choices, as long as it's a good story and I can enjoy it without wishing I had been able to change things. I'm a very visual person, and I enjoy reading dialogue/interaction more than prose, so a linear VN is more of what I really e...
by Fox Lee
Sat Mar 19, 2016 7:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: NanoReno 2016
Replies: 116
Views: 22167

Re: NanoReno 2016

I'm just curious. To those who don't have musicians/composers with them, where do you get your music from? Yup, Creative Commons music is your best friend! On my first NaNo I wasn't thinking about music at all until I was looking in the Creative Commons section on this forum, and I found all the th...
by Fox Lee
Fri Mar 18, 2016 7:38 pm
Forum: WiP: NaNoRenO
Topic: OFFICIAL NaNo 2O16 Gift Art Thread!
Replies: 71
Views: 11084

Re: OFFICIAL NaNo 2O16 Gift Art Thread!

This is such a cute idea! It's a shame my project will probably run right up to the line as it is :\ I'll try to participate after the actual NaNo deadline if I can :)
by Fox Lee
Fri Mar 18, 2016 7:29 pm
Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Topic: Picking Maximum Variable Value From a Large List
Replies: 14
Views: 2960

Re: Picking Maximum Variable Value From a Large List

The problem with the dictionary function is that it needs to know the values for the stuff in the list, and I don't HAVE those values. Since they're player-controlled, they can be a range of things. And so far, I've found nothing about how to put variables in a dictionary where I don't know their v...
by Fox Lee
Thu Mar 17, 2016 8:02 am
Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Topic: Keeping text shown during transitions
Replies: 33
Views: 13237

Re: Keeping text shown during transitions

Doesn't seem to do the trick for me, but I just took a quick try, and I may be missing something. I'll give it another shot in the morning. Thanks! :)
by Fox Lee
Wed Mar 16, 2016 10:00 pm
Forum: Asset Creation: Writing
Topic: Do you write a VN like a novel or a screenplay?
Replies: 23
Views: 7367

Re: Do you write a VN like a novel or a screenplay?

I just write it straight into Ren'Py files ^_^; That would get problematic for a long piece, I guess, but it works well for me because I prefer to avoid most narration, and adjusting sprites while I'm writing helps me do a better job. If I was writing for a group project, I'd have to try something e...
by Fox Lee
Wed Mar 16, 2016 7:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Your opinion about stats in dating sims
Replies: 21
Views: 6269

Re: Your opinion about stats in dating sims

While on that note-- I'd also like it if you actually GAIN STATS WHILE HANGING OUT WITH LI. Like I MEAN I WANT THIS. Hanging out with a jogger LI and getting little tidbits like "you know, [insert random bits of tips here]". In real life people get closer because they share knowledge on w...
by Fox Lee
Wed Mar 16, 2016 7:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Your opinion about stats in dating sims
Replies: 21
Views: 6269

Re: Your opinion about stats in dating sims

maybe everytime you go fishing you get trivias that can become conversational materials for the fisherman's son? That's similar to my idea of it, as you said, when your stats determine your affection with a character it just seems like they're not interested in your protagonists personality, but nu...
by Fox Lee
Wed Mar 16, 2016 9:13 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Have you been ever been so deeply engrossed in research?
Replies: 4
Views: 1098

Re: Have you been ever been so deeply engrossed in research?

On of my game ideas right now is based on a Finnish folk story that my husband's surrogate grandpa used to tell him when he was a kid. It's about a girl who married a bear to placate its spirit when it was killed, which makes her this weird sort outside-the-law woman and she goes on an adventure to ...