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Thanks for setting this up, Aginyan! I'm really looking forward to seeing what subjects the different speakers will be covering.

The Blind Griffin on Itchio has some of my favourite UI design in a visual novel. It fits in with the game's setting (using the 1920s art deco aesthetic) and is diegetic (it's implied the backgrounds are the "walls" of the speakeasy). Sasquatchii on Twitter and Lemmasoft is also an amazing VN UI de...

First, I'll list some resources you can check out. There's a great video essay series by YouTuber Innuendo Studios on male gaze in the film Mad Max Fury Road. The essay series is titled, Bringing Back What Was Stolen, and the whole thing can be viewed as a playlist here. The essay that focuses speci...

PyTom has written an article about this on his Patreon. If you need additional help with this, you may want to ask a mod to move this thread to Ren'Py Questions and Announcements. That way, people knowledgeable in Ren'Py coding can find your question more easily.

I feel like Google has failed us if searching for "video games set in fantasy 17th century" yielded little to no results. Here are several fantasy stories set around that era, or includes that aesthetic: Visual Novel Games: -Cinders -Cinderella Phenomenon -A Knight's Devotion Other Video Games: -The...

If your visual novel includes nonbinary characters, Queerly Represent Me has a list of over 200 translators offering help with translating VNs.

After some thoughtful consideration, finally I decided to release my VN into Steam . Now how to marketing on Steam...gaining viewers etc :D read the documentation but they only tell me obvious thing. If you have any experience with it please share. I will quote from this thread: Become a part of th...

Become a part of the EVN community: Join in conversations with developers. Help others work on their VNs. Share your work as you're developing it. Twitch stream your game: Make livestreams of yourself developing the game (working on art, writing, programming, playtesting, etc.) Use social media to i...

In the end, I kind of can't imagine bringing the game to Steam not being worth that 100 dollar fee, unless you just put it there and call it a day, without using any of the tools the platform has to offer. Especially if this project is something more than a one-off, you have very little to lose – a...

Does anyone have any recommendations for news outlets, blogs, specific journalists, Twitter accounts, YouTube channels, etc that showcase, review, or cover smaller VN titles, or small indie games? I was recently listening to a video from Errant Signal about how niche and untouched tiny games are in ...

There's a great video essay about this by Innuendo Studio, but on adventure games. But you can apply the same line of thinking with visual novels: tMVl5U3SlS0 TL;DR: Instead of there being a clear line of rules as to what a VN is or is not, there are (Innuendo Studio speculates) different traits tha...

You may want to take a look at different games that have blind protagonists. Take a look at how they portray the experience of being blind. Here are a few examples: Beyond Eyes: You can perfectly see the player character. She's in a white void, and should will be illustrated with watercolour objects...

I'm looking forward to what everyone makes this year. Thank you so much for setting it up!

It may be that one of your protagonists has a character arc (they go through changes), while the other does not (they stay the same from the beginning of the story to the end). Now, that's not a bad thing. There's a great television series called Good Omens that has two protagonists: An angel (named...

I recently made a visual novel ( Eight Sweets ) that includes 9 endings, with one of those endings being the good end. The good end can only be unlocked once the player has unlocked the other 8 endings (as the player gets scraps of information from each route that is needed to fully understand the g...