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So... umm, I just want to ask, what do you think is the best resolution for a VN? :) Currently I have mine at 900x700, just a bit bigger than the usual 800x600. The first thing to consider before resolution is aspect ratio. Aspect ratio is the shape of the screen. Once, 4:3 was the most popular (it...

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I... learned something new today.

That sketch looks nice. Today I've been trying to get a nice anime style look that renders quickly without much need for tweaking. I created it using the latest build of Blender. It's definitely more efficient than how I rendered this , which is a composite of like 4 individual renders. (Click the i...

Sculptris is awesome! I really tried to understand Blender, but I found it very hard. :/ Ah, it is a little intimidating initially. When I first opened it, I played around a bit and then didn't use it again for two months. There's a lot of tutorials out there now for it. BlenderCookie has some good...

Speed or abruptness could also help convey anger -- have his sprite suddenly appear saying the line, or, if your text is usually written onto the screen one letter at a time, have the line of dialogue appear in full immediately. Honestly, I think worrying about offending people isn't helpful; so lon...

If you're looking for a web designer, this sentence, "Java/Javascript, PHP, CSS, C++ or HTML" should be something more like "HTML and CSS, and maybe Javascript, PHP"; I don't see why a web designer would necessarily need to know Java or C++. Is there a specific reason you listed Java and C++? Also, ...

I enjoy using Blender. Also, I found Sculptris very fun and easy to use, though it doesn't seem like a lot of people here do 3D modeling beyond SketchUp. I use Photoshop quite a bit too, but I don't enjoy the process as much as I do with Blender for some reason.

anyway my point is 4:3 (800x600) is a dead resolution. Really anything "boxy" is a dead resolution. Using it tends to make games look quaint and "old." For desktop computers, yes. However, iPads are 4:3. Regarding animations; I think as long as you put some thought into it there's no reason why a l...

How many backgrounds are missing? Also, you don't need to have the checker board pattern there -- even if you don't find place holders, you can still use a solid colour as a background. Black is already defined in Ren'Py, but others aren't as I recall. So, "scene black" in your script where there's ...

Mind, in all this, I'm completely non-judgmental. Many people somehow identify themselves with the medium of video games and consequently the very idea that something they like isn't a game is very threatening to them, which I think is tremendously silly. Something not being a game is fine. I compl...

Games vs. non-games has been a topic that's cropped up on Gamasutra recently. I think one of the commenters there had it right when they said games exist along a spectrum, rather than within black and white categories. One things all games [which are unanimously accepted as games] share is that they...

I use nonsense pass phrases that amuse me. For sites that I don't visit very often (and hence haven't memorised the pass phrase), I just write them on a scrap of paper at my desk. An example would be something like: Juan day, I'll eat 50phor burritos! (One day, I'll eat fifty-four burritos!) I dunno...

Peep Show.

I agree that empathy is needed to write convincing characters, but I don't think sympathy is. I think someone can still be a good, empathetic writer and not care about others. That being said, in my experience empathy tends to bring about sympathy a lot of the time. Empathy comes with experience - d...

TrickWithAKnife wrote:I'll presume that you may have used a 3D image as a reference, just because the angles are flawless.
If so, did you create the 3D reference, or was it supplied by the commissioner?

I'm interested to know that too. If you created it, what did you use?