Making an interactive comic book in Ren'Py?

[SomeRandomGuy00]

Total noob here (though I've dabbled a bit once in the past), someone on reddit recommended this engine to me, anyways I'm looking to make an interactive comic book similar to Soul Gambler, with some (not so) basic stat and relationship tracking and event flags, but without the annoying IE10 requirement. How should I go about doing this, if it's even possible to do in Ren'Py? Also, what about pallette swaps?

[PyTom]

Have you checked out The Witch's Scissors. It's generally possible, using imagemaps and ATL, but you may have to think about exactly how you want to turn the tools Ren'Py gives you into a game.

[SomeRandomGuy00]

Oh so I'd accidentally downloaded the spanish version lol, but I think I get it, was this all done with changing/panning backgrounds and the moving panels by making the background black and the small panel a character?

This doesn't seem much harder than making a regular webcomic. Thanks!

[SundownKid]

It's not hard at all, you just have to make use of the $renpy.pause(checkpoint=True) command and you will be able to make an interactive webcomic in no time. Whenever you show a new picture/text box then use that command and players will be able to rollback/rollforward from those just like a line of text.

[carroll6]

What about making the images clickable? I got my imagemap working.. just understanding the basics.. to where it goes to another LABEL statement. I am struggling with basics.. another one is showing an animation when they click, like Hidden Object games. I have chronic pain, and I get confused when I am trying to understand things. I wish there were better examples of ATL in the Renpy Cookbook.

[SundownKid]

If you want to make the comic images clickable then you should make them imagebuttons within their own separate screens. Imagemaps are kind of outdated these days, as imagebuttons are a lot more flexible.

[carroll6]

Thanks for the reply! I am trying to hack something out now. DOCS dont show valid actions for Imagebutton.
I am trying to make it jump to a panel I have in the script.rpy keeps blowing up. It might seem ambitious, but I'd like it to say, show a text balloon on HOVER "Sayonara Robocop!" Then on click it goes somewhere else.. to panel1, I suppose. I suppose this is too ambitious. Just to get it to work, so I can understand it would be good.. I'm not even in the ballpark.

I get the idea of separate screens..but am confused as how to make them replace the main screen. Eh..DUH. I'm trying to hack it into the Main screen statement. Example, when game starts I'd like to show 4 or more comic panels. I can do this with the Imagemap statement. Can't figure out how to use ImageButtons.

[carroll6]

Hi! I figured it out. Not all, but now I can easily make the imagebuttons and do things with them. I might make a quick and dirty tutorial, very simple.. that shows how I came to understand how to use them. I was very confused...thinking that the Imagebutton had to be defined in screen.rpy. I had a tooth go bad a infection last night..and have chronic pain from my rebuilt shoulder..that's why the .. dullness on my part.