Dangan Ronpa Style Clock? (Solved!)

[Maychanx31]

Hello there!

I'm new to this forum (and new to creating Visual Novels in general) and was curious if it was possible to have a time system similar to the one in the Dangan Ronpa game series.

There are three times throughout the day in the game, "Daytime, Freetime, and Nighttime."

I'm hoping to have the game I'm currently working on run on a similar clock, however I'm not sure how to go about coding it.

If anyone might know how to code this, your help would be greatly appreciated!

- May

[ReDZiX]

In Danganronpa from what I remember, the time of day advances along with the story. That means you are the one who decides when it switchs from Daytime to nightime, and when a free time section happens. This might be as simple as creating some variables and jump to specific parts of the game (labels, in Ren'Py). You'll need a bit of programming knowledge, depending how complicated you want it to be.

I'd suggest you try learning the basics of Ren'Py and Python first, and study some of the examples in the Tutorial game and examples people have posted in this forum's Cookbook section.

[Maychanx31]

In Danganronpa from what I remember, the time of day advances along with the story. That means you are the one who decides when it switchs from Daytime to nightime, and when a free time section happens. This might be as simple as creating some variables and jump to specific parts of the game (labels, in Ren'Py). You'll need a bit of programming knowledge, depending how complicated you want it to be.

I'd suggest you try learning the basics of Ren'Py and Python first, and study some of the examples in the Tutorial game and examples people have posted in this forum's Cookbook section.

Thank you so much for your reply!

I've been playing around with labels a lot, so I'll see if I can replicate the system somehow using these!

Also, I'll definitely take a look through the cookbook. <3

[CalixtheGreat]

Here's a basic untested example:

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label start:
show screen daytime
"Monokuma" "Upupupu... It's Daytime! Get up now and kill each other!!!!"
hide screen daytime

show screen nighttime
"Monokuma" "It's 10 o'clock! Nighttime"
hide screen nighttime

show screen freetime
"Naegi" "It's free time. What am I going to do?"
hide screen freetime

Then for the screens:

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screen daytime:
   add text "Daytime"

screen nighttime:
   add text "Nighttime"

screen freetime:
   add text "Freetime"

NOTE: This is untested so it might contain some errors. Hahahah.

[Maychanx31]

Here's a basic untested example:

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label start:
show screen daytime
"Monokuma" "Upupupu... It's Daytime! Get up now and kill each other!!!!"
hide screen daytime

show screen nighttime
"Monokuma" "It's 10 o'clock! Nighttime"
hide screen nighttime

show screen freetime
"Naegi" "It's free time. What am I going to do?"
hide screen freetime

Then for the screens:

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screen daytime:
   add text "Daytime"

screen nighttime:
   add text "Nighttime"

screen freetime:
   add text "Freetime"

NOTE: This is untested so it might contain some errors. Hahahah.

Thank you so much! This code is exactly what I was looking for.

The only issue I had was with the screens, however, all I had to do was remove the "add" from the beginning of "text." After that it worked beautifully!

Thank you again!

[Imperf3kt]

I'd do something a little more convenient like this:

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default ronpa = "" # this is blank on purpose

screen dangan():
    modal False
    
    hbox:
        xpos 30
        ypos 30

        text [ronpa]


label morning:
    $ ronpa = "Morning"
    monokuma "Bim bom bum bam. It's another beauuuutiful morning. Time to wake up and see who's dead!"
    return

label night:
    $ ronpa = "Night time"
    monokuma "The time is now 10PM. Time to go to bed."
    return

label freetime:
    $ ronpa = "Free time"
    monokuma "Its time to kill each other. Free time."
    return

label start:
    naegi "Why am I at school?"
    monokuma "I kidnapped you! Now make with the killing."
    
    show screen dangan
    call morning
    call night
    call freetime

Much less typing for you

[CalixtheGreat]

Here's a basic untested example:

Code: Select all

label start:
show screen daytime
"Monokuma" "Upupupu... It's Daytime! Get up now and kill each other!!!!"
hide screen daytime

show screen nighttime
"Monokuma" "It's 10 o'clock! Nighttime"
hide screen nighttime

show screen freetime
"Naegi" "It's free time. What am I going to do?"
hide screen freetime

Then for the screens:

Code: Select all

screen daytime:
   add text "Daytime"

screen nighttime:
   add text "Nighttime"

screen freetime:
   add text "Freetime"

NOTE: This is untested so it might contain some errors. Hahahah.

Thank you so much! This code is exactly what I was looking for.

The only issue I had was with the screens, however, all I had to do was remove the "add" from the beginning of "text." After that it worked beautifully!

Thank you again!

I'm glad to help you.