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Epschy wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 11:29 pm Why does it matters a VN having a high replay value if one can only purchase a VN once?

Because it gives people more reasons to buy, if all you care about is how many copies you sell. More value for their money, in a way only games can achieve.

dotHack wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 5:16 am I think it might work if there are hints that it was real, in fact.

That's the usual counter-twist, yeah, but it strikes me as more of a way to soften the blow (pun not intended).

My (never completed) visual novel was inspired by a couple of asset packs from Open Game Art. You never know.

Sure, in Before the Faire I used a set of backgrounds made from photos with an effect applied. Worked really well.

You don't have to set up any kind of formal organization to publish on itch.io, you can simply do it as yourself. But I couldn't say how to go about it. I've made one third of a visual novel, that came out great but then got bogged down (like much of my fiction does) and stopped there. In any event,...

I just remembered Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber. Another all-time favorite. The viewpoint character even changes mid-series, without missing a beat.

My favorite examples remain Robert Heinlein's classics: Starship Troopers (yes, yes, I know), The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and especially Double Star.

I have much more experience writing static fiction than visual novels or the like, so take this with a grain of salt: You don't build a plot, you grow it. You're basically running a tabletop RPG adventure all in your head, being both GM and every other player at the same time. (That's why writing is...

All of the above. Also: Inception is an excellent example of "it's all a dream" done right. Arguably The Matrix , too. Though the former manages to avoid the "your mind makes it real" trope, while the latter leans into it, rather annoyingly. For what it's worth (with apologies fo...

The resident jerk being a viable romantic option to pursue. That perpetuates a harmful stereotype.

MapletreePaper wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 11:05 am Even non-pornographic VNs tend to have a scenes could be considered risque, depending on your standards.

So do most Hollywood movies, whether they need it or not, yet it's visual novels who get all the bad rap. Go figure.

All open source licenses allow commercial reuse, by definition, as long as the other license terms are followed. Most open source licenses require attribution, but not all. You're probably thinking a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, that you can apply to your assets; Ren'Py itself...

Project estimation is a dark art. I usually have to multiply my initial figure by three to get near the actual duration. Other colleagues I talked to use a factor of four. Either way, there are always going to be unexpected issues, leading to more unexpected issues, so don't sweat it. Making softwar...

fierylion wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 12:37 pm Now I need to look up the legal definition to obscene/pornographic

Unfortunately that differs from country to country, and in some countries it's really vague.

You got confused. :) pip is a command-line tool, use it from a command prompt or terminal, not from within Python. (It can also be used from within Python because it's really just a Python module, but that's more complicated and another story.) But what are you even doing with pip in the context of ...