#renpy anon

[sk3tch404]

Time sure flies fast huh, like jfc I can't believe it's Rory season February already 😳 speaking of February, how'd you think Rory would react if I gave him pralines/chocolates, that I secretly filled with wasabi on Valentine's Day? Hehe

-Ren'py anon

Indeed it is 😈 lucky I've been thinking of him lately

Rory may be flirty, but trust me he's fragile.

Once he pops one in his mouth, he's gonna be COUGHING CHOKING AND HEAVING.

The Volkovs think this prank is hilarious and will protect you just to piss Rory off even more. SO I HOPE YOU'RE A RUNNER AND A TRACK STAR 🏃💨

Not only did you trick him with a display of sweet affection commonly used by couples, YOU GAVE HIM FOOD HE DIDN'T LIKE. Rory does not play with flavor or his food, so he will most definitely get moody.

He can track you down *snaps finger bc THEY DON'T HAVE AN EMOJI FOR THIS 💔* like that. Rory has been doing "this" for a long while, so if you do somehow get to the Volkovs in time, consider yourself lucky or Rory making a real bad slip up.

Which he does sometimes, but most casualties end up in his favor surprisingly. (Doesn't mean he likes how the shit hits the fan when it happens though)

As much as I try to hate him, I REALLY CAN'T 😨😕😯😕😷😫😩😫😱😨😱😯😠😡😠😡

No glasses 4 him bc he's been mean to you (Being mean to him doesn't count BECAUSE HE DESERVES IT)

[phonyroni]

got any fav ocs?

OH BOY DO I???? MX. ANON I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I HAVE A 67 PAGE DOCUMENT ON ALL MY BABIES AND FACTS ABOUT THEM :D

But in all seriousness it's between these ones that I always come back to: Val who's my feral little lady that I add to every game I play EVER, then there's Gabriela who was a yandere I made in middle school and I still love her, then Rayan who's super depressed but he slays so I won't let anything bad happen to him 🤫

[oscconfessions]

sorry my last ask was such a fucking downer. anyways i think that romance object shows/comics should exist more often actually. i had this idea where a human gets isekaied into object world and its like. a viewer’s choice thing of who the protagonist hangs out with and dates and stuff. am i normal for coming up with this. probably not actually

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[applottl]

Hey! Is there anything else you have for Welcome to Wobbletown? I love Mallory sm, she(?)'s a cutie! I can't wait to see what you have in store for a jester dating sim! :-D

eeeek!! tysm! so glad to see someone interested in this! unfortunately this project is VERY SMALL cuz im focusing on rules for relationships currently, but i can drop sum extra concepts and official art! (also, yes, mallory uses she/her pronouns!)

above is a concept of the main menu screen, one of my sprites for annie (the co-manager of wobbletown!), and a bg for the teen zone created by @shauwkip0pz ! so, like i said, not much so far consisting of the art, but i have ALL of the story fully developed!

the game will have a total of 10 characters, with 5 male characters, 3 female characters, and 2 nonbinary characters! it takes place at a mall playplace!

(xtra concept art under the cut, sum of this is old tho lolsies)

[enkvyu]

jjk x mystic messenger sounds so cool is that going to be your new smau because please don't give up on your gojo one 🥹

i miss it so much when will you update????

hi anon! wait …. when did i mention my jjk mysme game 😵 i totally forgot OOPS anyway it isn’t a smau !! its a game i’m making on renpy rn

this is why i have been rlly bad at posting recently (kinda)

i havent abandoned two faced !!! she is still alive and well and i will bring her back soon 🫶 please wait a little longer 💕 i hope this also answers for the other asks ive gotten abt two faced 😭

[shadowpeachyuri]

I thought macaque knew shockingly little about the modern day. But then he revealed he knew how to make a video game, so all bets are off

sorry got distracted. can we all start headcanoning macaque as a tgirl programmer now

[metaltea]

I feel you’ve been asked this before but I was unable to find said ask…but anywho! Advice and tips for making your own game?

How goes said game you are making btw?

Hmm not really! I'm not a great person to ask since I haven't ya know successfully made a game or anything, and the only thing I have a teeny bit of experience is with renpy. For that, there is a very welcoming community! I think there's a renpy discord server, also a subreddit, maybe a forum?? AND just tons and tons of resources you can find online very easily.

As for the game I am (was) making.... basically no progress for months lol. I could never come up with a decent plot for beyond day 1 and idk if I'll ever continue it, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Plus the more I looked at the designs the more I realized how basic they were in comparison to all the cool designs out there. All my ocs look the same, all my art looks the same, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

(sorry pmdd brain very loud today :c )

But yea I hope I helped a bit!

[throwaway-yandere]

Hi! Love your work so much and I adore the effort you put into your stuff. I'm making a genshin otome and was wondering if it'd be okay to ask for a promo of sorts in the future? It's absolutely completely 100% valid and understandable if you don't wish to promo other works in your own blog though! I just wanted to ask first for permission or whether it's okay or not! Thanks for reading! Love ya <3

Love your work so much

Press X to doubt, you sound saner than an average reader

Okay kidding aside, I'm not exactly the most influential/popular person so I'm not sure how I'd be able to help but I can reblog it(?) for sure! I enjoy genshin and otome games so yeah!!! Even if you didn't read my works I'd still look forward to this lmao. Wish you the best in making the game <333

[kroovv]

previous anon here: dorian's predatory business practices are a lot like wattpad's if you know anything about that—they pocket a huge portion of the proceeds for every VN they publish and only give very few pennies to the actual authors, essentially using other people's work to line their own pockets, while pretending to provide a great platform for artists. Last I heard they also have terms that say whatever you upload to them becomes their property IP. it's the kind of situation where they convince artists its the easiest option for publishing a VN, when in reality there are other ways that are just as or even more simple that allow u to keep full ownership of ur work. I also have a grudge against them specifically because they bought up an indie VN studio that I was a fan of, put previously free stuff behind a paywall and otherwise ran it into the ground, and their social media people were very unprofessional and sent threatening messages to fans for making fan content.

Renpy takes some learning, but it's really simple once you know how it works. And besides renpy there are other VN engines that are even simpler (Unity even has a VN library called Fungus thats very simple and straightforward to use) TyranoBuilder is also a popular one. As for chapters, there are absolutely people on itchio updating their VNs a chapter at a time, although i dont know if its in the way youd want; pushing each separate chapters as updates to the main game, or releasing each chapter as a separate game come to mind as options.

(i'd honestly even offer to convert the game to renpy for you since ive been working extensively with renpy for the past 2 years and am very familiar with it and how to work it, if it meant i could save one artist from the clutches of dorian, but that feels too much like overstepping 😅)

So i am not sure if maybe they have changed things, but with games self published to them they own 0% of that IP so I will own Gravehearts 100% only if they where to buy it from me then they’d own it but i personally do not see that happening lmao. From what i understand about it is it is like Webtoons but for VNs anyone can upload to it but they still own it like how i still own Horizon Walkers even though it’s on Webtoons and Tapas. They do take a % of what you make so that is why I would love to also have my own app or game on itch as well!

I have a decent following for my artwork but who knows what that vendiagram is for people who like VNs is, so if i where to publish the game somewhere by itself i don’t know how well it would do because I don’t know if i have the audience for it, also i don’t know if people would even see it when i post about it cause social media sucks. So like posting HW to webtoons so that people who read comics might see it that’s what I am kind of hoping for with posting Gravehearts to Dorian.

Again with Gravehearts i own it 100%, with publishing games there you can chose when and where people pay for things, and people do paywall love interests and main story stuff but i fully do not intend to do that because I don't want to do that. So I will not be putting any main story or love interests behind paywalls the only thing I would do as paid stuff are optional scenes with a character where you can get a nice full art piece of them from it! (Im also trying to figure out if i could put some kind of code on the image so people can download high res versions of it as phone wallpapers! So you’re actually paying for something more tangible)

However like i said previously i would love to make my own app for it, or something like an app or on itch, but i could maybe try do it in tangent with Dorian, so people who don’t want to support them can still support the story somewhere else! But it might take a little while for me to be able to do something like that because it’d be learning a whole bunch of new stuff and it is just me but I will do my best 👍

[brummelliana]

Hiya! This is from weird anon who definitely hasn't been googly-eyed over your account since the second I got Tumblr. If this decides to not make me anonymous I'm gonna cry. Anyways!

Why are you so fucking cool? Do you drink potions? Have teatime with the Beatles every morning? I'm confused.

You genuinely inspired me to make a Beatles dating sim. I'm working on it now, actually. Not the coding. Still gotta learn that. Story wise? Failing, but I'm getting there. Writing a Ringo route. (I'm looking at you, you know.) 😒

CBML was the first dating game I had ever played. Genuinely. I'd never really been a fan of them until I played yours. I've probably gone through the routes so, so so many times. I'm absolutely head over heels with this game. It made me feel so ecstatic. I love The Beatles with all my heart. And all of the routes had me on the edge of my seat. Other than the true route. What the fuck was that. I need answers as to why this was a good thing. Continuing on-! It was very well written. At one point I had to turn my laptop away to take a minute to ask, "what am I doing with my life?" To which destiny had me pulling the laptop back into my lap.

I LOVE your game. And your art, and your personality. Hell, I only got Tumblr recently and I already knew about you. You were everywhere.

Just wanted to yap at you, sorry 😭

Wow! This is such a kind and flattering message, thank you!

Sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm far from cool. In real life I am a schizoid autist, I spend all my time drawing, that's why I'm good at it.

Have teatime with the Beatles? I wish. It would be cool if they wanted to hang out with me. I would do a lot more than drink tea if I had access to Paul.

If you are using renpy, it's really not that hard. There are a lot of tutorials online, and if you have any questions, forums and reddit has a lot of answers, or even people willing to help if you can't find anything. I didn't know coding either, but I figured it out!

I dont see how the true route was any worse than the others heheh... if anything its much more tame!

Yes, my prescense in Beatles online spaces makes me quite happy. I know there are people who hate me, but I am not ashamed of how I choose to portray and talk about the Beatles.

Regardless, I only aim to spread Beatles love. That's why I choose to make these games instead of just drawing self insert all the time. I think the Beatles are all nasty awful men but its been 7 years for me, and at the end of the day, they're real cute!

[thekillpetition-if]

If you had to try to imagine how an ace attorney style shocked sprite for the RO’s what do you think they would be like?

asdfghjll i love this so much I KNOW exactly what you mean anon!!!

for those who don't know: each ace attorney characters have unique, very out-of-pocket animation for each character sprites when they get 'damage' / 'shocked' in court.

If TKP would also have the same thing:

Sam: Crumpled his ciggs box, proceeded to attempt to light it with a lighter that won't work before stopping himself because that's not allowed in the courtroom.

Eva: Whipped out and applied lipstick, it jumped out of her hands and she fumbled with it before she caught it and gripped it so tightly it snapped in two.

Morgan: Flipped frantically through his notebook, dripping cold sweat, before reading a page, then ripping it off to crumple and eat it whole.

De Leon: Typed something in their phone, grew more and more frantic until they pressed so forcefully that the screen cracked, and they jumped, fumbling as it jumped in their hands.

Oh how I wish The Kill Petition is more of a visual novel (e.g. Renpy style) media. I think it would really suit the mechanice and vibes.

Alas, I don't have enough resource nor skill for the graphics and illustrations. (And if anyone was going to send me 'Just generate with AI ✨😌' messages, I'm going to cut you off there because no. Just no)

[sk3tch404]

Lmao np <33 I always enjoy drawing Yandere's as pathetic lil meow meows hehe (funfact: I actually drew Rory first but after I finished his lineart I was like, wait shit I don't have a full color reference- and then I hyperfocused on drawing jay instead lol)

Also, you 🤝 me: jayce + jack o' lanterns = stonks ✅ ✅ ✅

Also also, ngl if Darling were self-aware she'd def hate me, because I always try to speedrun the Bad ending first lmaooo

Also^3, every time I hear baggy pants, I can't help but remember the boys I went to school with a few years ago, who wore the most ugly, most a t r o c i o u s pairs of baggy pants I have ever seen 💀💀

For Reference: https://imgur.com/a/fZsHsF7

This is what I'm talking about^^ like pls,, just sTO P-

About the blue reference, the paragraph I meant was the one about how I only liked EJ so much because of his BLUE mask 😔 young me truly set the bar too low (maybe it's because of him that I'm attracted to most fictional mad scientists/doctors with no morals now, damn this bastard 😒)

Oh, and the OG mikey myers Movie is the 1978 one! ^^

And finally about the Christian Gang /hj (every holiday Yandere of yours has/used to have strong Christian influences but these three are still considered extra Christian to me so I'm just gonna start calling em that lolololol)

Gonna be honest, when you revealed that one of them was gonna be Christmas, I immediately headcanoned him as just some guy in Christmas elf costume- thank god that's not the case though (I say, even though I know damn well that I'm still gonna draw him in that costume the nanosecond you drop a ref for him, because he's a lil skrimblo who needs to get a reality check via me shitposting him into humility)

Also ofc the twins are ginger 😒🙄 /derogatory /j okay but fr, whenever I see a fictional ginger online I'm like ....Ed Sheeran??? 😱😱 (coughcoughchildecough)

-Ren'py anon

OKAY OKAY I'LL DROP A SMIDGE OF RORY SPRITES SO U CAN COLOR IT BBG

He only wears shades outside lol

HEHEHE YES JACK O'LANTERN STONKS GO UP IN THE BRAIN CELL ACTIVITY

Eh, I mean, its always fun to get the bad ending first though. Just to see then get all angry and violent 😍 good shit tbh

MC would def hate you, but I feel like it would take a bit to get the bad bad ending yk? I don't have the obvious, good/neutral/bad choices most of the time (although there are some choices that will obviously lead to negative consequences lol)

JAYCE ONLY WEARS THE ONES IN STYLE RN NOT THOSE LMAOOOO

Though they can look good if done right, those boys at school were definitely not doing it right 💀

Now I understand the blue reference! Ugh how did I MISS IT SO BAD 😭 gosh you were going crazy abt him and the color blueeeeee

I understand how that all kick started ur obsession with fucked up men. We are one in the same 😎

Hehehe thank you for the confirmation! I will be watching Myers stand there menacingly as I look up fics of him 😍

It's so funny that you call them the Christan gang, but it's not gonna have all the significant original values and whatnot. It's just a global holiday thingy that everybody does regardless of religious background (Though I'm glad you still see their origins and acknowledge their important purpose to many other people!)

GOD HELP WHY? I ONLY WATCHED LIKE 10 MINUTES IF THAT ELF MOVIE WHEN I WAS IN 6TH GRADE DURING LUNCH? WHY WERE THEY PLAYING IT DURING LUNCH YOU ASK? BC OF CHRISTMAS OR SMTH IDK, BUT IT WAS OKAY IG

It would be very funny to see him as an elf that works at the mall as a side 😇 He needs it anyway

Regarding the Twin's, THEY HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE MAKE GINGER JOKES, SO BAD. THE MINUTE SOMEONE SAYS ANYTHING ABT ED SHEERAN AROUND THEM, THEY EITHER ZIP OUT OF THERE OR FIGHT. NO IN BETWEEN.

Typical gingers 🙄 so sensitive dude

Childe is one of the only gingers I can tolerate. If these two didnt have a life and played Genshin, they would favor Childe so much.

[h-sleepingirl]

hey, i'm sure you get stuff like this all the time, but i just recently discovered your renpy games, and holy shit, they were such a game changer for me! i kept trying out hypnosis stuff, but nothing put me in trance like i think therefore did. it's very exciting to be able to return to trance because i know what it feels like now, but even aside from my interest in it as a kink, it's done so much for my emotion/bodily awareness in general :) like wow, i can actually feel and influence my thoughts and emotions and mood changes inside my body?? wild lol. even just guided meditation never worked for me because i would get too caught up wondering if i was calm yet, and they always sort of took it for granted that i already know what my body and mind actually feel like. NOTHING else guided me into such an immensely calm and nice-feeling state like those games, AND i got to have a ton of fun while i was at it. my anxiety management skills have Skyrocketed since then! thank you for sharing the amazing work you do!!

This is really cool anon! My games are definitely not intended to be therapeutic but I think it makes sense you had this effect because I emphasize awareness and observation a lot when I do hypnosis :) Makes me feel proud and confident that this is a good direction to go for people like yourself who have a difficult time with trance because (many times) they don't really know what to look for or how to look. Thank you :)

[oneknightstand-if]

With so many variables and possible outcomes, how do you plan your storyline? We've all already acknowledged coding is a nightmare for you, but writing with all those variations must be too, right?

How do you plan your IF?

I know I was joking with that other Anon about the coding being eldritch, but it's actually not that hard.

The stuff I was programming in Renpy way back when was way more fiddly. It might be hard for a codereader to parse since I use *gosubs and multireplace and such so that there's no repeated text, but that kind of stuff doesn't really make the actual coding/writing all that harder.

During the first part of the fencing route, I actually tried to do that thing where you just repeat the text instead of using *gosubs & such to see if it would make things easier/faster, but that made hunting down typos a real PITA, so I didn't think it was worth it. (Also that would've bloated the word count outrageously in the end)

The biggest time sink will always be going back and replaying through every variation of a scene. If I just wrote/coded the game, ran Quicktest/Randomtest, and then slapped the IF up immediately for playing then this would've taken 1/4 of the time. But it also would've been a way more bug-filled experience for the player.

Otherwise, I've got several hundred pages of research notes & backstory and such, but that was mostly written before I started writing the actual game. I don't start writing until I already know exactly what's going to happen in the story. (Or at least the major plot beats. I don't know that I'll give an option for the MC to tie their shoelaces in Chapter 5 or something such)

My version of the game code is actually filled with a lot of *Comments such as Remember to allow MC to use [SPOILER] in the upcoming fight (+ a description of exactly what each of the variables in the startup file do), so the version of the game put out for the public is the way less annotated one.

[enkvyu]

For the mystic messenger game you're making is it gonna be available for us to play i kinda wanna try it 😞 and would it be like a dating sim i wanna flirt with gojo fr (I'm trying to cope)

hi anon!! yes it will be 🫶 it’s very mysme esque in the sense that you go through 8-10 chatrooms per day uncovering this super silly unsrs plot i have going on !!

u can flirt w gojo in his dms and in his route 🔥 lord knows i am but unfortunately i won’t have the full game out anytime soon 😭 maybe an early demo ??

[barbwritesstuff]

i loooove blood moon and cant wait for your future ifs. i know you mentioned that you were planning on a mermaid/siren if (pls correct me if im wrong) but i was wondering if you plan on a sequel for blood moon?

Okay. I'm glad you asked this anon, because it's all a bit messy, and I think it would be good for me to explain this. Bear with me, as my brain is a bit disordered right now, so this may or may not make sense.

Will there be a sequel to Blood Moon?

I dunno. Maybe. I want there to be. But I don't know, which is frustrating (for me, as well as you).

See, it's not that I don't have ideas or anything.

I have this idea for a Blood Moon sequel that I really like. It's titled 'Thicker Than' and focuses on the vampires of the city, rather than werewolves. The MC would be a new vampire with a mission from the Night King: solve a series of murders targeting members of the Night Court.

Here's the problem:

I haven't been paid or seen any sales data from Blood Moon, in part because the Australian Tax Office is taking months to organise a document that they said would only take two weeks.

So... without any data, and with everything in life just getting more and more expensive, I literally just can't financially commit to another large project set in this world. I don't mean to be dramatic, but that's the honest truth.

I need to know how many people bought Blood Moon before I can consider writing a sequel (because a sequel is probably not going to sell better than an original). And I just don't have those numbers. I don't know when I'll get them either.

I'm really sorry about that.

Will there be a dark mermaid thing?

Again. I don't know.

I have this really cool idea for a dark mermaid thing that I think people would really enjoy. It involves pirates and ancient sea gods and cannibalism.

It'd also be another full length thing. Eg, around the same size as Blood Moon.

However, I'm holding off on using Choicescript for the reasons above (I need to have sales data).

I've been experimenting with some shorter Renpy games, the first of which I'll release next month on itch.io. If people like the style of those, I'll consider using Renpy as a tool to make the dark mermaid game... if no one buys the short games, then I'll reconfigure and try to come up with a new plan.

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I'm sorry if all that was a bit blunt. I'm really trying to be forthright and honest about all this. I want people who read my stuff to know what's going on, and I wish there was more to say, but everything has a lot of 'hurry up and wait' energy, which is all a bit stressful.

I'm also querying a prose novel right now (asking literary agents if they want to help me sell it) which also has a lot of 'hurry up and wait' energy, which isn't helping. 😅

Despite all this admin-y stuff, I am still drafting and writing, but it might not be stuff that you get to see for a little while.

I really hope that all makes sense.