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I used the old cookbook for my gameplay tests and I found they still work post update? For hitting things on the keyboard with the timer, there's a few useful threads up on it already, such as this one https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21152. For ref, the codes looks like thi...

I'm somewhat familiar with screens, but I've never tried creating a whole game menu. Based on the coding, it's not hard to transfer over some things to a new game menu (such as, "tag menu", "use game_menu", "use navigation") but the hardest part I'm having problems with...

I've been playing through Steins; Gate 0 recently and I really liked how they handled to pause/menu screen (pictured below). When you pause the game or open up the menu, it zooms out to with a screencap of where you were and then zooms back in when you return to the game. http://i64.tinypic.com/spz0...

While creating a visual novel doesn't usually require this, in fact REAL GAMES need one. Visual novels are click click click read, see manga babes, read, click click click. No engineering required. It's almost all based on the quality of art and nothing else. A section for developers it's useful? N...

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trooper6 wrote:
I've tried using Editra, but it has issues on Macs. Maybe I will try Atom too in the future.

Really? I'm also a mac user but I've never had issues with editra.

Occasionally if I try launching a script via ren'py to editra it'll crash but it always works on a reload.

Echoing Mickychi, 80-120 pages, even in 12 courier, is a hard range to figure out. Looking at a doc I have, though, 80 pages (non-double-spaced) is about 30, 000+ word at 0.01/word. However, if you want things double-spaced (especially since this is a script) that changes the word/work count, so it'...

Editra for general work, TextWrangler for when I'm editing and doing fixes.

I don't think there's anything wrong with non-romanceable characters, if it fits the game and they're fleshed out as something more than just being there than being the token non-romance (aka, the token gay/ace character)? I remember playing Hakuoki and being so disappointed I couldn't just run off ...

I love alone endings, even when I play otomes, especially if they're done well. One of my fav ones, in Arcana Famigilia (VN version only), was a very rewarding alone ending because, rather than punishing you for not hooking up with anyone, it emphasized things like your familial and relationships wi...

If you want to base endings on points, you can track it based on if/elif/else variables. So for ex, when the player gets to the ending decision branch, you can just input some code to read your tallies like so: if goodendpts == 10: jump goldenending elif badendpts == 10: jump darkestimeline elif bad...

I've read (on Eurogamer maybe? Maybe RockPaperShotgun) that Steam Direct doesn't mean more curation, but less. The Valve rep says that what they need is not quality control, because quality is subjective, but better search algorithms so that you can find more games that are like the games you like....

Recently, Steam made the motion to kill Greenlight and replace it with Steam Direct, so instead of players voting on which games should appear on Steam developers will have to pay a fee to get on. I was wondering, given how many VN devs rely on greenlight or make it a part of their kickstarts, what ...

Arbitrary/Padding choices I'm not given a reason to care about/I know won't affect anything in the story I feel are better left out, even if that means a game only has a few choices in the entire story. Choices are /there/ to be meaningful, otherwise why have a choice in the first place? I do have ...

I also have exploration levels in my game. How I keep players in an 'explorable' section is I just have an exploration screen which contains things like the image/text buttons for that area. So for ex: label area1: "blahblahbetter check my pda" call screen area1_explore screen area1_explor...

I think "extras" would be nice to have. So many VNs feature weirdly unpopulated environments. An extras pack could have stuff like shopkeepers, two neighbors chatting, kids playing, businessperson on the phone, person walking a dog, person fixing a bicycle, and other selections to make a ...