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Yes, I understand that. And I agree that assets creations benefits from higher resolutions (I worked a lot of years as graphic designer). And all that technology to upscale stuff seems fascinating too. But that is not what the original question was. That was about how a VN should be now. And the an...

Also, at least think of future-proofing your own work. I don't plan on releasing a 4K visual novel anytime soon, but I make sure my assets can support that resolution. There is a game I was waiting to get translated and ported FOREVER, and when it arrived finally, it felt pretty bad - because it ha...

I guess I'll continue this trend of 'inception' quoting of myself. It seems the resolution thing comes up every few years and what I've said before on the topic remains very relevant. This has come up before in a very extensive thread worth reading here: Game Resolution Thread I'll just quote myself...

I would also add that many of the most popular characters are archetypal. Adding backstories (especially EXPLORING those backstories) to such characters can actually diminish the impact of the character. Very often less is more. I would say that Wolverine, Darth Vader, and Han Solo were better chara...

Thanks for your advice Rabbit, and I'm sorry for the late response! That makes a lot of sense. I've read through the link you shared and I'm still not exactly sure where predicting images should be inputted. In the area before "label start" on the script.rpy or in another file? Also would you recom...

Most games made with newer versions of Ren'py don't actually "slow down" or "get laggy" - they only SEEM to do that, because of image or screen responsive-ness. (For lack of a better term.) Ren'py tries to run at the least demanding framerate possible depending on the situation, and generally does a...

Also worth thinking about WHY you'd want to lock everything away. Like others have said, anyone that wants to access your game assets absolutely can, no matter what you do. Major game developers and publishers with tens of millions of dollars can't protect their games from being reverse engineered a...

I'll quote myself from one of your other threads where you where showing this. ....while I applaud you doing something different with the MC side-portrait, it feels kind of 'off' to me. You've seemingly gone to some trouble to make sure your NPCs are all the correct height in relation to each other,...

Concept work is entirely different from illustration work. Concept work is much more time consuming - and yes, it should be charged for separately. A client can be a little fuzzy on what they want for a concept, but they should have a fairly concrete idea for you to pursue - for example, "The charac...

The more you can convey with visuals, the less narration you'll need. Generally, I feel like visual novels shouldn't get bogged down in narration and should tell most of the story in dialogue. I'm including main character "thoughts" as dialogue in my definition. I feel like that often works best for...

Hope everything went well with your procedure.

Thanks for all you do, PyTom.

I agree with Imperf3kt. The main thing that jumped out to me is the lack of padding around the text - especially around the character names. Give everything room to breath. Also, while I applaud you doing something different with the MC side-portrait, it feels kind of 'off' to me. You've seemingly g...

I personally think you should condense story roles down into as few characters as possible - not only does this give each character more depth, but it saves you a lot of development time. You aren't making new sprites or coming up with new names all the time. Plus, it opens up interesting stories yo...

Welcome to the forums! I absolutely adore your art style. Great color and designs. I have to say that I love any character design where the sleeves are longer than the person's arms, but I'd probably pursue the Bunnie route. Something about chasing rabbits.... Don't be confused by my art style. They...

Oh, wow! Almost missed the Kickstarter. I caught it just in time. Pledged.

Papillon, you always make great games. Happy to contribute.