Beginners' Accomplishments! Boasting time!

[Ionait]

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!

[clannadman]

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).

[Ionait]

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).

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!

[Camille]

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

[roankun]

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.

[Tachyglossus]

I can make images appear at random coordinates!

YAY!

[fioricca]

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.

[Tachyglossus]

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.

[RemnantDream]

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.

If that dot is even in a game, it will totally distract me AND I WILL LOVE EVERY MINUTE OF IT :DD

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.

[Silvere]

I've started 6 games at one time

Now that was a big mistake, my friend ... D:
Better stay with 1-2

[RemnantDream]

Now that was a big mistake, my friend ... D:
Better stay with 1-2 ;)

I know. xD Well, I started 6 but right now I'm working on one. The others are just kinda clogging my folder.
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

[curry nochi rice]

customized the GUI for tweaks... added SFX, BGM... random imagemaps.... ARGGHH... what's left is the tricky CG gallery...

[babyfish]

My characters can BLINK! WOOHOO!!!!!!

[RemnantDream]

babyfish, you put the rest of us beginners to shame with your epic awesomeness and stuff (~-3-)~

[manga_otaku]

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