#renpy anon game

[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

[icedmetaltea]

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

[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.

[girlbowser]

sorry for taking so long to get back to you (im the "wowzers" anon) but yes! i can totally scream your ear off about this!

you talking about the routes in this game being a metaphor for college and purposes in life reminds me of what playing pqr has meant for me personally. i first found this game when jade's route was still being worked on (the "anticlimatic" update specifically) and its really so strange to see how much of my life has changed. a couple days after i started playing pqr i realized that i was going to have to move and it basically uprooted my life (realization not brought on by pqr just happened to be at around the same time). most of my plans for how i wanted to spend my life, seeing my friends, my career paths, kinda felt like they got eviscerated because of stuff out of my control. but i just like. ignored it and didnt really think about it :) at least until the move happened and it all came crashing down. im sorta better now, but still going through it. and. just seeing jade talk to kanaya and talk about not knowing where to go next or who exactly you are now plus the jade theme music playing in the background that i had listened to constantly while playing, replaying, and rereplaying jade's route. actually made me want to bawl my eyes out (in like a good way though lol). this game is so special to me. its been one of the main things in my life right now thats been keeping me going through it all. i love to go back to it and replay it comparing the older routes to the newer routes and see what references i missed. everytime i play it, it feels like a find something new. and i think even years after now and even if homestuck becomes a smaller part of my life, this game is going to stick with me forever. thank you so so so much.

also, on a sillier note, what the heckadoodle do you mean the fucking hampsters movie was real? i was just like oh haha thats a silly idea! a hamsters movie with the hamster dance! such a funny and fake thing to have in a homestuck fangame! its like guy fieri being the antichrist or gushers being made by a genocidal fish! silly fictional stories making up silly fictional things!

but like i looked it up and its real??? its fucking real????? its a movie i can watch with my very own two eyeballs. apparently fucking saberspark made a video about it?????? huh??????

actually i just realized this is probably very congruous with homestuck. because i do not know how to convey the shock i felt when i was in a convenience store and found out that faygo was real. and then the further shock when i realized that tab was real after telling myself that SURELY at least one drink in homestuck was fictional.

im not sure if you meant to send this to @pesterquestrewritten or not but. holy fucking shit this is one of the sweetest asks ive ever gotten of all time????? jesus christ. oh my god.

i dont think i need to say it but pqr has been a very similar lifeline for ME as well. like, ive been dealing with some pretty schnasty depression since/before leaving school. and, like, working on pesterquest rewritten, HAVING that outlet, that creative place to put my energies, its been so vital for me. and then hearing that its been the same for my READERS????? crazy. crazy wild shit

speaking of older routes, i DID actually go back and add one thing to the rose typewriter ending in the prologue, it uses a new renpy feature that i'd been asking for for months hahaha

and also, if you have the technical knowhow and youre curious, feel free to dig around the internals and find the hidden beta for bonus route 3. im not gonna tell you to not play it lmao

aaa

yeah! yeah yeah yeah yeah. im incredibly happy my writing has resonated. and that the silly puppet show i put on next to my writing has also resonated. its. yeah. waow

wawowawoawoaowoaowaw.

fun fact about the hampsterdance movie. one time when i was in high school i had a professor who was like "yeah i composed music for hampsterdance." and i was like ???? okay man. sure. because at the time that movie was lost media and nobody knew it existed. so i had no fuckin clue what that guy was talking about.

of course YEARS later it turns out that the movie DOES exist. and i looked up the credits and i dont THINK i see his name there? but its probably what hes talking about. if it isnt what hes talking about i have less of a fucking clue than anything at this point lmao

pqr likes to reference my other works a lot! for example, the chatroom called "the nexus" first appeared here, in my first published fic that was textually about ultaradia. youll sometimes find quotes or phrasing that match whatever other fanfic i was writing at the time, or, i mean, obviously, you've got the entire A Bed of Roses section, which USED to be a tribute to my longest work, and now is only a neat reference to my second-longest work. god damn, did pesterquest rewritten ever grow out of proportion lmao

yeah. i think the main thing is that i really could never have gotten as far as i did with pqr without my friends and creative collaborators, who have encouraged me forever one thousand years. pqr is a game about friendship, obviously, but the friendships that were integral in the CREATION of the game are even more important to me than the virtual ones tbh. i love everyone whos in the credits of the game very dearly

thank u all :,)

and thank u for reading and enjoying!!! i'll try and put out more for the kanayaroute bad end tonight :D

[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.

*

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.

[nadianova]

I'm the renpy anon and thank you so much for the explanation!! It really helped me to motivate to start. I was wondering if there was a specific way you write your scripts? Like I've heard that sometimes it's better to write directly into the program for example

hmmm i am not 100% sure what you mean. but i tend to write my narration and dialogue first in google docs (just because of autocorrect and stuff) and when its ready to put in renpy format i use notepad++ but literally any code editor works. i just copy paste in chunks at a time and add in all the needed renpy syntax like quotation marks around sentences and who is saying the lines etc

you can make changes in script.rpy and while keeping open the renpy game window and hit shift+r to refresh the game and see your changes in real time

[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 😭

[when-life-gives-you-lemons-if]

I just want to say, I love The Wedding so far. I’m a huge fan of enemies to lovers so the bully route with Micah already sounds so promising but I have a couple of questions I hope you don’t mind answering:

Has Micah always been into MC but didn’t know how to express themselves so they chose to bully them as a result or do their feelings get deeper as the story progresses? I love the kind of tension that brings to a possible romance route with a difficult background like that with a character.

Certain people express their love in many different forms; how does Micah express care or affection for someone she deeply cares for? Do they have any preferences as to how MC displays their care for them?

Final question: do you plan on doing RO POVs with The Wedding just like you did with WLGYL and The Midnight Saga(I absolutely love their perspectives and what I love about both of your projects by the way) Anyway, have a great day and great job with all your work!

Hmmm, you're asking the right questions, Anon. And thank you for the kind words, glad you love my games. 🥰

As you know, I don't really do toxic, so you are totally correct about Micah. I envisioned the bully route with Micah as the type that the one who can't really express their love and just decide to be a dick about thinking that's the way to go. And I think they love MC for who MC is, someone that never really bent to their whim, someone who is not afraid to call them out.

I'm planning to do some character development to show how everything plays out, but one main thing about this story is all the characters are flawed.

You have Danny who has anger issues and the scars they hide under their tattoos. Micah is spoiled, but deeper in the story MC will get to see another side of them. And Hayden who is a complete manipulator, and then Tar, and now Cass. I really hope I can manage to write them as in this game the characters are supposed to be complex and not lovey-dovey as the ones in Lemons.

As for the POVs. I don't know if I can get away with that in a VN. but I do plan on doing some more scenes like the one I made for Hayden. So will see. But if you're referring to like side stories in Choicescript for The Wedding, the answer is no as I'm trying to keep it away from CS as possible.

I can't wait to share the new Renpy updates.

So far it will only be PC and Mac, no phones yet.

[intimidatingpuffinstudios]

Hi, I encounter a bug on the android app, just after metting Zack, and tell them 'you're here to rob me' or something like that

[code]

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:

Exception: String 'The quip leaves your mouth before you have any time to think about it, dry and emotionless. You do not pause to consider how your words could be interpreted as offending, especially considering that this [Zach_manwoman} is helping you unprompted.' ends with an open format operation.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:

File "script.rpyc", line 490, in script

File "renpy/ast.py", line 930, in execute

File "renpy/exports.py", line 1474, in say

File "renpy/character.py", line 1337, in __call__

File "renpy/character.py", line 1251, in prefix_suffix

File "renpy/character.py", line 1231, in sub

File "renpy/substitutions.py", line 278, in substitute

File "/home/tom/ab/renpy-build/tmp/install.linux-x86_64/lib/python3.9/string.py", line 165, in vformat

File "/home/tom/ab/renpy-build/tmp/install.linux-x86_64/lib/python3.9/string.py", line 174, in _vformat

File "renpy/substitutions.py", line 162, in parse

Exception: String 'The quip leaves your mouth before you have any time to think about it, dry and emotionless. You do not pause to consider how your words could be interpreted as offending, especially considering that this [Zach_manwoman} is helping you unprompted.' ends with an open format operation.

[/code]

What an excellent bug report 😫👌THANK YOU, anon! It should be fixed now!

[alexis-royce]

Hi, it's the same anon that asked about RenPy a while ago. I was planning on looking through your games to check out the code before, but now that you explicitly said you were okay with it, I just opened The Jig Is Up and started to intentionally see how much I could break it before it became unplayable [I'm not doing anything that drastic, I'm just testing parameters in what I believe are procedures (?) to see what they mean since I couldn't find some of them in the documentation???? What???? So I decided to go the fuck-around-find-out route]. So far I just broke the sounds and the colors, but maybe sometime I manage to put a sprite in a scene where it is so out of place it becomes comedic

On a serious note, thank you for your comments because I don't think I would know where in the script I'd be without the HUGE #### CHAPTER X #### separating one point from another and where exactly are the spots we are supposed to respawn at when we get a game over screen. I'm literally just finishing my first CS year so, as you can imagine, I rarely ever comment on stuff so it's been useful to see how they can be of use in the future

If you learn nothing lose from this, absolutely make sure you comment your code! It’s not just for helping out other programmers; if you come back to a project weeks or months later, you’ll lose so much less time trying to figure out what exactly everything does.

And also please feel free to go full on drastic and absolutely destroy our code! XD If you break it beyond repair you can always just download another copy. 😁 I’m smiling right now thinking about how silly and fun our game would look if someone’s breaking it on purpose to see how it works, it’s such a comforting thought that it could teach folks something new!

[throwaway-yandere]

@genshinotome :: I played the demo and it's so INTERESTING! You did really good with it and I loved the references to other otome games :D!!

I'm very impressed with what you've got so far and very excited to see more ^^

[The yandere otome game diluc VN demo]

Uwahhh thank you!!! Btw everyone pls check out @genshinotome cuz their game looks really awesome and incredibly aesthetically pleasing!!! The premise of their game is definitely intriguing with how there's a new nation in genshin please do check their work too <3

Also just me and phitre's idiocy here lol:

[manonamora-if]

Hello, Manon

I was wondering if you could help guide me to a beginner guide to Renpy :-;

cause it's really overwhelming with all its info

Hi Anon!

I'm not a VN person (well, I like to play them, but that's how far I'm going...) so my knowledge of the program goes as far as knowing its name 😬

I've asked around and got some links for you, though I can't say if they are super duper beginner or not...

The Quickstart Guide from the official Ren'Py documentation

How to make a VN in 10 minutes from Freecode Camp

Ren'Py Essential Youtube Playlist by Vimi

Ren'Py Tutorial Channel by ZeilLearnings

The Ren'Py Resource Tag of @interact-if

I've also been told there is an intro project in the Ren'Py Install to help make a basic game.

Hope this is useful! 🤞

[andhyssops]

HI, ASKING ANON BECAYSE IM EMBARRASSED ABOUT HOW FERAL I AM ABOUT YOUR ART???? ITS SO. ITS. ITS. CRYING.

HIIIII

so your new game right? So um. Is there. A mobile version because i uh am struggling. Very much.

hiii this is sweet tysm I'm glad u like my art <3 my games aren't currently mobile compatible but I'm looking into making them playable in browser. I think renpy just released new support for web games but I only did a bit of reading up on it so far so no promises

[just-a-carrot]

same anon from the ask about whether or not you'd add a system that'd allow you to switch between arcs - that's completely understandable ! i just wanted a way to reread each iggy asexual validation scene without having to go back through an old save or replay the entire game ^ - ^ your game is awesome by the way, really love it !! and each time i think about it i go insane and crazy (in the good way)

ah!! hmm......

i know that renpy has a feature you can make that's like a scene replay gallery? 🤔 i could maybe look into adding something like that in for the final update. i'm unsure what scenes i would choose since i'd need to pick specific ones lkdsajfads and make it clear that once you play the scene it'll take you back to the menu (like you can't start from that scene and then keep playing afterwards). it could be a cool way to easily replay like key scenes tho!! i will do some research lol

in the meantime, you can also use the skip function! either the CTRL key or the TAB key will let you skip through quite quickly (i have to use this copiously while playing and testing LDKJSADKF) and you can use that to at least go a bit faster to refind scenes you're looking for

ahhhh and thank you very much???? that's so kind and sweet ahhhhhh you will make me cry 🥺💕