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I'd like to allow players to drop their self-translated .rpy files into the tl (translation) folder, and have the game create a menu that would allow them to select whatever languages are in that folder. How would one go about doing this? Would this require the use of renpy.exists to check if a cert...

I never knew about the ARC option, thanks! I can't do it for this instance but it's good to know for the future.

What would be the process to run a Renpy game on a Chromebook running linux?

Is there a way to open it through the command prompt?

Is there some library(ies) that need to be downloaded beforehand?

Thanks for any help.

Steam posted this on their blog today. https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1666776116200553082 Excerpt: So we ended up going back to one of the principles in the forefront of our minds when we started Steam, and more recently as we worked on Steam Direct to open up the Store...

Odd question, but say you have the (zipped) distribution file for a project. Is there any way to know which version of Renpy was used to compile that distribution? I know the log.txt of an ~uncompiled~ project will show you the version number. Once it's compiled though, is there any way to tell? Tha...

Thanks for the advice, Tom!

I'm wondering how feasible it is to take a Renpy game and using the "extract dialogue" option, provide a way for non-English speakers to create translation files themselves. These would be translation files they can copy into a patch folder. 1) Have any commercial games done this? 2) Is th...

Thanks for your reply. Nice breakdown of pros and cons!

Ok, I'm trying to wade through the info on translating games...I was wondering if VN developers had a preferred approach/policy on fan translations? For anyone making a commercial game, do you tend to encourage/discourage them? I think I've heard some devs say they tend not to respond, allowing them...

I sent my Kickstarter backers to bmtmicro.com for a commercial game, which I also sold afterwards through their site (being that they allowed NSFW content.) Backers were given a discount code that allowed them to redeem the game for free.

I actually use a command line program called Image Magick (check out imagemagick.org) to scale down sprites because for some reason I got better results than using Photoshop and some other image editing programs. XnConvert is a free tool that might also help...though I found the older versions of it...

The problem with the steam (being renamed to store in 6.99.13) build is that it's unlikely to work on a Mac without being launched by an app store like Steam or Itch. If you're fine with that, you can use it - it will work just as well. But you probably need to test on the mac. Hmmm...I was plannin...

Great, thanks for the response, mikolajspy.

Is there a way to use the game files for a Steam distribution usable for the non-Steam version? To be more specific, I'd love to be able to use the same script for both Steam and non-Steam builds, and not have to yank "achievement.grant(name)" from the script for the non-Steam build. (So f...

Thanks for the help mikolajspy and SundownKid.