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[Coding #1: New Gym Location] - VN Creation
🕑 Added 2023-06-07 08:48:55 +0000 UTCA little bit of something different here. I'm posting a glimpse of what it looks like beneath the game. The code, so you will. Those code-savvy of you might scoff at how disastrous it is, but I'm honestly proud of where I'm at now. I literally started from nothing last year.
For the rest... it looks intimidating, but it's actually fairly easy to create a VN as long as you're only creating a simple VN (Story + Branching Choices). Attempting an open world/ sandbox mechanic is.... stressful. You need more than the official Ren'Py tutorial to make something remotely good. Not to mention the different elements needed to make a functional UI, the variables you create that you need to remember.. Honestly the best advice I could give you, is to dissect a game you like and REALLY learn how it works. I'm still learning myself, to hopefully create a better game.
If you look at the image again, you'll see the code for gym.rpy, that's cause I'm working on it for version 0.6! You can guess which character you'll see next, just based on the variables. The right page is just a list of characters that I've had to input to properly display their names on the text box. It looks tedious, but it's just compounded over time, adding new characters for every release does that.
I also have tons of other files that make up my game, but I won't explain into detail about coding this entire thing right now. But if you have a question(anything at all), just let me know!
P.S: I'm still on the fence about this kind of content, but I want to give something back. It might not be useful to everyone, but hopefully someone can get something from it. It's also not all coding, there's story-writing, editing, and some HS2 posing to get through for my future posts. Look forward for these over the coming weeks and months!
![[Coding #1: New Gym Location] - VN Creation](https://img5.patrefans.com/storage/6/ja/ly/563145-019e856d-5594-795d-8c06-8a5cc659764f.jpg)
Comments
yarow12
So~ I just~ might make a 30min visual novel soon. It'll be a prototype and linear for the sake of not torturing myself with stress and workload too much, but I'm thinking the end result would bea treat for people interested ina short story about two dudes... and sexual tension. Gonna scroll through that GitHub compilation later. Got any tips and such, though? 12hrs later edit: After already starting the tutorial, I decided to check my options and found Inky/inklewriter to be a simpler method for the prototype, especially since it'll be so short and simple. Switching to Ren'Py will be considered after I know how exactly what I want the end result to be. While I'm at it, can you add the "vn creation" flair to this post?
TheOnlyRean
This is Ren'py, it uses Python as the base. So if you're knowledgeable with that language, you should be able to understand most of the code.
yarow12
As someone who's had a VN idea or two in the past, thanks. edit: What kinda code is this, though? Reminds me of the one from Fandom.com.
