#renpy dev

My visual novel, World Cell: Chronicles of the Orovahn, is now in production! It will be an 18+ narrative-driven fantasy VN with ADV segments.

There is no release date for the game yet. It'll get done when it's done, but I will be progressively working towards a demo!

To reach this point with any project has been a huge milestone for me, and World Cell has been a project of the purest passion from me, one that I haven't felt in literal ages. I can't guarantee I'll share frequent updates, but I'll share some on occasion!!

For now...admire the view with me.....cuz it took me over two days to get this menu to look and function properly XDDDD

Snippet of the current state of "The One With Sans Undertale"(working title) Visual Novel.

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Is it slightly mad to get this excited about text animation?

Yes. Yes it is. But this took me the better part of 3 DAYS to get working. So I reserve the right to get unreasonably excited.

Text from Pléhtin's route, with Leiz and Leíla talking about aggravating their elder brother. Early stuff, so there are probably spelling and grammar mistakes, apologies.

There is a mouse click in between the two animated lines. The plain black presentation is NOT how it will be in the final game, I'm just using a clean file to run experiments in.

It might not be that clear what's going on here, but effectively what I'm doing is scripting each line to print in a mimicry of the timing experienced if the characters were speaking, small pauses for commas, different pacing for if a section is spoken quickly or slowly, etc. The timings here are not as I want them, and I'd like to overlay a fade to make everything read as less robotic.

i’m working on a fun little vn with lots of gore

its gonna be really cringe but it’s just me testing out ren’py. so far i’m having lots of fun

I know this kind of thing may not be the most exciting to those not fighting with/alongside the renpy system, but to the few who this will make sense to...

I got custom save names to work, and I included data in the save files which will now display Chapter and Route, as well as condensing the save system from pages of slots to a list, and automatically re-ording those slots to account for a player deleting an old save!

I did this through negotiation with the FileSaveName, save_name, renpy.unlink_save(), renpy.rename_save(), a few custom functions, and a lot of beating my head against a brick wall until stubbornness won out.

The custom Save Name issue, which seems to catch many folk out, can be tackled like this:

Code below

Progress has actually been pretty smooth:

I want to run things through a few hoops before it's bumped to the public demo, but know it's on its way.

I'm leaving the behaviour of the Word Log as is for now, tweaking that too much might cause unforeseen errors.

I'll work my way back through the asks sent in over the course of the poll and answer them individually over the next few days.

Original Opinion Poll

I've mostly got this behaving itself now. ¬¬ mostly...

But I wondered if folks would be interested to see what this line looks like code side:

The mode and timings are divided from the text with a _, while text is sectioned off to allow for multiple timings and behaviours using a |.

I've also just patched in a few extra lines which allows me to write like this:

Note the 'a' instead of the previous instance of a mode_timing bit. This is auto behaviour, it takes the mode and the individual character or word timing from the previous section, allowing me to print the text at the same rate, but add pauses for extra effect.