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One thing in particular I'm worried about is that Vista apparently restricts programs from writing anywhere besides My Documents -- and how that might mess up the Save Game/Load Game functionality when playing Ren'Py games. You needn't worry about this. Firstly, there are many places other than My ...

And to make things even more confusing, some sound novels (such as the original Sound Novel series from Chunsoft that coined the term) have character silhouettes , just not detailed pictures. However, most sound novels actually lack character voices, so a game that concentrated exclusively on text a...

Option 3a is tempting - it gives syntax very similar to classic Visual Basic, which many people still associate with "easy" programming. (Option 4 would be slightly better still. Does it really require commands to be hardwired? I would have thought it could be implemented as syntactic suga...

SolarSnake wrote:Copyright law doesn't allow one to copyright bitmapped fonts

...in the USA. The situation is not necessarily the same everywhere, and individual font EULAs often quite legitimately add additional restrictions above and beyond basic copyright law, so proceed with caution.

I see a number of things conspicuously absent from the amazing-new-version feature list... trivial features that I couldn't quite believe Blade lacked in the first place, like automatic lineation. (Forcing users to put in line breaks by hand is not my idea of "easy to use".) I can't believ...

Freetype supports OpenType fonts with CFF outlines just fine, and (despite the misleading name) so does SDL_ttf, so it should work...

The idea would be that rolling back would store where we were, and then rolling forward would jump us to to that point again. So if we made a menu choice, rolling forward would re-make that menu choice. If the user makes a different choice, then roll-forward will be disabled. This would also limit ...

I don't see why anyone would choose readback over rollback Rollback appears to have several limitations compared to the readback modes implemented in most other visual-novel engines. Most specifically, it appears that Ren'Py's rollback doesn't have any facility to get you back to where you were onc...

If I have to make changes to a final version (e.g. an already released VN), I write down exactly what changes were made. That's what source control is for. :P Seriously, that's another coding best practice: use source control. Subversion or whatever. Even if you're the only coder working on a proje...

Commercial games tend to split things up quite a lot. A typical RealLive game, for example, will have separate script files for each menu screen, and then separate scripts for each logical section of the story (each chapter, or each day). If there are multiple routes that can be taken, then these wi...

You may possibly find it helpful to think of an analogy with text. Consider that imitating someone's writing style, or being inspired by their story to write a similar one, is clearly fine, whereas copying whole sentences directly from their work, or copying their actual story and just changing the ...

You could probably run Ren'Py on Jython...

(Not a serious suggestion; I doubt Java applets support SDL, so the whole backend would probably need rewriting, for very little real gain.)

Rollback is good, but it is only mitigation, and there are still cases where it would be a frustrating option -- for example, in the case of a 30 second animation where the player only accidentally skipped the last 5 seconds, the rollback approach still presumably means the player will be forced to ...

It can be useful to have skipping blocked on a first play-through. While it's frustrating for a player to be forced to sit through a long animation that they've already seen, it's equally frustrating for a player to miss an animation they haven't seen before because they clicked by accident.

I will just drop in (slightly late) and point out that despite the claims above, it is NOT the case that using a GPL'd font will automatically "infect" your code with the GPL. The GPL only affects code that is linked to GPL'd code. "Mere aggregation" -- distributing a GPL'd progr...