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Do you think that certain types of stories are more suited to VNs? Absolutely. Visual novels often have multiple endings. So if you come up with a story where you have multiple ideas on how the story can end, making the game as a visual novel can be a good decision. Visual novels also combine a lot...

I'm so excited to see what people will make this year!

Additional update: All 30 episodes of The Buzz can now be found on the Internet Archive: The Buzz

I'd be interested in creating cover art for your interactive novel. I've sent you a PM.

I think a guideline to start with would be asking yourself if the demo includes these three things: Establish the premise and main conflict. Establish the protagonist. If there are any mini-games or gimmicks, include a snippet of it. There will always be exceptions to these guidelines (example: Some...

Music is not, on a technicality, not necessary. We know this because there exists music-less games--usually these games were without music because these games were old and there were technical limitations back then for producing sound (Pong). Or the game is an idle game: A game genre where the point...

I'm working on a detective VN called The Butler Detective. It's not released yet as of the time of this post, but you can follow me on social media to watch its progress.

I was reading about the development of the adventure game, Trauma, and discovered that the game was built using the Papervision 3D engine, which includes the ByteArray mouse gesture recognition library. This is what I know so far: Ren'Py includes a gesture recogniser, but it only seems to be enabled...

It's difficult for me to write advice on how to write compelling characters because at this point, my instinct feels kinda intuitive when I write a new character. A piece of advice that I can give is to give your main character a foil: A character who in some way is the opposite of your first charac...

You can use a story grid to help plot out and organise you VN. I gave a talk about this during 2019's Visual Novel Conference.

Here is a recording that was kept of the live talk:

Katy133's List of 10 Things I'd Tell First Time VN Creators: When writing, aim for 400 words per day. Sir Terry Pratchett recommended this, and C. Robert Cargill says a small word count goal makes writing feel less daunting to start. Good advice overall Katy133 but as to the line above I'd like to ...

Katy133's List of 10 Things I'd Tell First Time VN Creators: Start small: VN projects always, always, always end up larger than you expected. -Make bite-sized steps: Divide everything into tiny, manageable, daily/weekly steps. Be manageable. Pick the VN project you *want to do,* not the one you *wan...

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...