Beginners' Accomplishments! Boasting time!
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Beginners' Accomplishments! Boasting time!
There are a number of experienced VN makers on the forums now (as in, have made more than one complete game) but there are also so many beginners too (like me)! So I thought it might be nice to share our very minor accomplishments.
I just put the first scene of my script into Renpy, edited it, even made my very first menu with choices and jumps! I had to go back so many times and fix colons and weird silly problems, but there it is! And I can play it, the first scene of my game! There aren't any pictures and the UI hasn't been customized. But there it is, the very first step, and I feel so relieved/happy/proud!
Can any other beginners share their first time accomplishments or stories about getting over those first time developmental hurdles?
Memories from veteran game makers would be nice too!
I just put the first scene of my script into Renpy, edited it, even made my very first menu with choices and jumps! I had to go back so many times and fix colons and weird silly problems, but there it is! And I can play it, the first scene of my game! There aren't any pictures and the UI hasn't been customized. But there it is, the very first step, and I feel so relieved/happy/proud!
Can any other beginners share their first time accomplishments or stories about getting over those first time developmental hurdles?
Memories from veteran game makers would be nice too!
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I haven't been developing for long but I finished making my custom in game menus yesterday. Felt good to have overcome what I thought would be a massive technical hurdle (was quite simple in fact).
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I'm about to start that process myself... I'm a bit overwhelmed. But! I found a guide by Aleema from this forum. I bookmarked it and am ready to go!clannadman wrote:I haven't been developing for long but I finished making my custom in game menus yesterday. Felt good to have overcome what I thought would be a massive technical hurdle (was quite simple in fact).
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Haha this morning I finally figured out that you could use DynamicCharacter to have an inputted character's name in the name box above the dialogue. It's a really minor thing but I was really happy to finally have put that in so that you could see the heroine's name with her dialogue. (see: http://twitpic.com/4x4phh/full - SPRITES ARE TEMPORARY ;; that's why the heroine's taller than the guy, haha)
I was also really proud when I finished my custom menus and such. :3 It feels really great playing your game for the first time after you've coded the first bit of it. XD
I was also really proud when I finished my custom menus and such. :3 It feels really great playing your game for the first time after you've coded the first bit of it. XD
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I'm working on my status page right now, and I thought it was really difficult at first since I've got a lot of changing images based on different stats, but now that it's working nicely, I feel so relieved.
I don't have any kind words to spare to someone who already has all the reason in the world to feel good about himself.
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I can make images appear at random coordinates!
YAY!
YAY!
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Reviving an old thread but this thread is SO CUTE.
I'm still in the middle of making my first game but each time I add sound effects and what not I could almost shed a tear. Ren'py is like magic, it's let so many people work and do magic. /)-(\
I'm currently figuring out if statements, menu labels and stuff relating to user choices; I'm sure that once I get to customising my mind will just be blown even more.
I'm still in the middle of making my first game but each time I add sound effects and what not I could almost shed a tear. Ren'py is like magic, it's let so many people work and do magic. /)-(\
I'm currently figuring out if statements, menu labels and stuff relating to user choices; I'm sure that once I get to customising my mind will just be blown even more.
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Dude I totally made a dot that cycles through the colours of the rainbow and I can move it around the screen!
.......Okay so that won't be helpful in any of my ideas, but I love my dots. They help me learn things without needing pretty art.
.......Okay so that won't be helpful in any of my ideas, but I love my dots. They help me learn things without needing pretty art.
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If that dot is even in a game, it will totally distract me AND I WILL LOVE EVERY MINUTE OF IT :DDTachyglossus wrote:Dude I totally made a dot that cycles through the colours of the rainbow and I can move it around the screen!
.......Okay so that won't be helpful in any of my ideas, but I love my dots. They help me learn things without needing pretty art.
I've started 6 games at one time(two of which are going to murder me because of how big the are), already dropped one, and am almost about to release a demo of one. Huzzah.
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Now that was a big mistake, my friend ... D:RemnantDream wrote: I've started 6 games at one time
Better stay with 1-2
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I know. xD Well, I started 6 but right now I'm working on one. The others are just kinda clogging my folder.Silvere wrote:Now that was a big mistake, my friend ... D:
Better stay with 1-2 ;)
That's just the way I work though. I'll get inspired by something out of the blue and want to start writing it right away. Sometimes I work better when multitasking like that. There are actually a couple more ideas that I've thought of that have yet to start xD
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customized the GUI for tweaks... added SFX, BGM... random imagemaps.... ARGGHH... what's left is the tricky CG gallery...
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My characters can BLINK! WOOHOO!!!!!!
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babyfish, you put the rest of us beginners to shame with your epic awesomeness and stuff (~-3-)~
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She really does >w< her first game and it's looking awesome and seems as though she's flying through while insit there and cry over conditional variables xD
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