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Really gorgeous art and backgrounds! Only having one character on-screen to worry about surely helps you make sure it's great. Good luck! Looks interesting!

There's a few point and click guides in the renpy cookbook, and you can probably find more with a google search! Here's a few on on the forums here that should help you out. https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=62037 https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=20541 http...

This looks like an interesting tone and cool concept. I'm officially following and hope to see that first Arc soon!

I tried \n and got an infinite loop. Is this method for a line break still viable? I noticed this post is 15 years old and the engine may have been updated. It works for me: "Some words.\nA linebreak" gives me: Screen Shot 2021-11-03 at 10.29.21 PM.png You should probably look at the text documenta...

You can also solve this by changing your art assets instead, by having an invisible transparent box around your un-hovered button that takes up the same space as the big button. So, if your smaller button is 50 x 50px and your big button is 80 x 80px, make the first button 50x50 but with a transpare...

Sorry if this is a silly question, I'm still learning the basics of renpy! I'm making a small game that is styled after an email exchange. My concept was to style the NVL box like the email window, and then have the choices box be the reply box down below (still working on moving it to the bottom) a...

I think they're important to include for accessibility issues tbh. The less button presses you need to do something, the easier it is for someone who has mobility issues or pain or low energy to smooth over their experience and remap it to whatever configuration is easiest for them. For some people,...

I think what you're running into isn't a problem of writing, but simply a perspective that is different than the normal dating sim. You're just consuming your own game in a way that's different than the typical dating sim player. Consider fans of other properties and the kinds of fanfic they produce...

I really like the concept of this! The thing that really caught my eye was the swapping personality traits part? That seems like a really unique hook, so I'm really interested in seeing how that develops! I'll keep my eye on this!

I'd say if its a short loop, lead them on a single path the first time through, with some choices that change minor things but generally aren't anything huge. It's the character going about their normal life, not doing anything weird or huge because it's normal life. Once it loops they can start doi...

I like to do edits big to small. Each of these steps don't necessarily get a whole draft of their own, but it's the order I like to do them in. 1. Large structural changes. Filling plotholes, cutting or adding subplots, etc. 2. Scene changes. Adding/subtracting scenes, changing the overall flow of t...

Another technique you can use is fading out or darkening the sprites that aren't the main focus or who aren't actively talking. This helps reduce the visual clutter and keeps the focus on the character talking.

Yeah, it's a nice technique! I've noticed that for as much discussion there is of the art and writing of visual novels, there doesn't seem to be a lot of attention paid to the creative effort that goes into the actual blocking of scenes, which is more than just a pure programming exercise. It's nic...

I second that I like the underline without the line on top!

I think it's cute. I've seen a number of games, too, where they use expressions for a main character along side a dialogue box, which has a similar effect. (With that said, I think I'd prefer this if characters were texting.) Oh! These don't make it to the actual game, it's just for the draft of wr...