#renpy anon game

[sweetestflow3rs]

lol dolcord is a cesspool. im palestinian, and the deplorable shit ive seen people say about my people and nation on that server is vile. vrel wont do anything, they always enable puri and devil and the other mods

WOW THATS SO!!!

[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

[girafficus]

(Care to ask the stranger a question? Perhaps even confront him?)

[loveafterdeath-if]

Heyy dear authoor, I dont know if you are taking question on these but I wanted to ask you about twine and coding. I’ve been interested in writing my own IF but vscode and twee and everything i’ve been reading so far got me super overwhelmed and I tried vscode and everything went red and error with templates I tried to use 😭 I was wondering what is your flow of coding the LAD and how did you started. How is story folders works, how do you structure the files and compile them

Anon... I'm shit at this but I'll try to help as much as I can.

Tbh, I touched a bit of everything before publishing anything. Idk how many games I started on renpy only to abandoned them because I was too lazy to continue and because I dunno how to draw and because I didn't know how to code it in a text only thing. Idk how many IF I started and are still gathering dust in my files and waiting to be rewritten properly, because I wanted to use choicescript at first but didn't understand a single thing lmaooo

I think templates are the most useful for a first IF, especially if you dunno anything about coding etc. I struggled a bit with mine at first (still am sometimes).

You also have to be sure to check if the template was updated for the latest version of twine and if you use the same story formats (SugarCube, Harlowe and... I don't remember the others). Make sure to check in the comments of the template you got too, sometimes some have answers to your potential questions.

My coding flow is a mess so anything I say will probably not help you. I knew some stuff before starting thanks to many attempt at publishing IF, even though I never published any until LAD. We're talking about maybe 2 years of attempts. So in the meantime during those attempts, I've watched some tutorials on ytb for exact stuff I needed, searched on google, on tumblr too (btw check @uroboros-if account, they have a lot of helpful stuff, that's where I found out how to deal with the pronouns, etc. and there's also @outoftheblue-if who knows much more than me (and I used one of their(?) templates! And @manonamora-if definitely will help you better if you got any question about twine!)

I think you should ask or search for the exact things you need. I did that most of the time and gathered it all somewhere in my files. Like, if you wanna know about how to code cycle choices, or how to deal with the pronouns of your ROs, or that kind of thing.

I doubt I've been helpful, but do feel free to head to my discord if you have more question about stuff!

[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!

[lcb-oil]

I just want to say I'm cackling at your april fools video, you did a fantastic job with everything from the sprite edits to the music and text! If you ever released the Renp'y script, I'd be over the moon.

Link to the video in question🔗!

It's on my to do list for sure.

I keep telling myself that I want to clean up the code, because I put things together really slapdash to get it done in time for April 1st.

The UI code that I wrote (which does actually handle things like character titles / sinner numbers, coloring the name box, showing the location name) is also functional but... messy!

I'm probably being too precious about it when it is essentially a joke project. If I try to "make it nice" I'll never finish, haha.

For people who've never used Renpy before, the script for the game looks like this:

Overall, not too hard to write!

You asked on anon, so you might not be able to answer me directly, but would a github project be the way people would prefer to get the Renpy script? Or some other way?

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... I'm really motivated to share it because I'd love to read everyone's custom chapters someday!

[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 :)

[skaruresonic]

VN Anon here. Sorry if my ask caused up a stir. I genuinely wanted to compliment you on your efforts with your first VN and understand your inspirations behind it without coming off too strong.

I was so invested with how you approached Sonic and Knuckles' conflict -- it's a very solid adaptation of what tends to be the heart of their disagreements. I was a little caught off guard when I was trying to help Amy, so I did feel like I was thrown for a loop when I accidentally prioritised her external conflict over her internal conflict (I got a real good scolding from Sonic TwT). And Cream's event made me feel personally responsible and protective of her, and the background story that Vanilla wants the best for her but considers discouraging her dream of becoming a baker made me feel a bit seen lol. So I commend you for making me feel human emotions like I'm a part of the cast even as Sonic's buddy^^

The unique spin you added with the puns, the dogs, Knuckles' weeb deal was a fun break from expectations. And your thoughtfulness over avoiding narration fatigue is also something I appreciate heavily since I'm frankly not a vn player by trade. I was interested in seeing your spin on the cast since I tend to agree with your thoughts on the game cast.

Currently still on the meta section (the character swap is entertaining), but I like how Eggman is a genuine threat, an absolute control freak, and sees me as a tool! Guy's a hilarious bastard as always!

I guess I'm trying to say that from one artist to another, I think your art's really nice and I resonate with it! I'm gonna play Antigravity once I have some spare time!

No worries, you didn't say anything wrong. Everything's cool. :>

Thanks! Originally it was going to be a kinetic novel (linear VN with no choices) but due to my inexperience with RenPy at the time, I couldn't figure out how to make branching paths; every choice tended to loop back around, so I decided to work with that conceit instead.

OaS isn't fully non-kinetic, but it isn't fully kinetic either. Only one choice really matters, which determines whether you get the bad ending, and even that can be reversed if you know what to do. You might just have to suffer for it a little, is all.

Without getting too spoilery, each choice has a "bad" alternate route, which is implied to be Eggman veering things off-script. You can see this as early as the first choice, where he pops in with a jumpscare. Because there aren't a whole lot of choices, I tried to make each one weightier than usual, as well as fairly obvious.

The overall idea is that you'll evaluate each situation and choose the option that's best for the characters, rather than something you may personally want them to do. ex. Sonic says he's getting stir-crazy, so it would be kind of imposing your will on him to be like "no, stay home and read a book." The original plan was to tally each of the player's bad choices and have Sonic issue a warning if it looked like the player was on the path towards a bad ending, with each one slowly increasing the volume on the alarm. But, again, due to my inexperience with RenPy, I didn't know how to set up those variables. What I wound up doing instead was a more binary system where one choice is the "good" choice that progresses the VN like normal, whereas the other is the "bad" choice that loops you back around following a jumpscare.

There's nothing in the code that will punish you for making poor choices - you won't get any friendship points docked or anything like that - but since the game is about friendship, I was hoping Sonic's admonitions would be enough. The deterrent needs to be a little harsh in the absence of flagged variables.

(And that's before Vanilla puts the fear of God in you. :P)

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Currently still on the meta section (the character swap is entertaining), but I like how Eggman is a genuine threat, an absolute control freak, and sees me as a tool! Guy's a hilarious bastard as always!

nobody appreciates Eggman's contributions xP

"Do you have any idea how hard I work, Sonic?"

"well maybe you'd ship on time if you let somebody else handle the co---"

"SHUT UP, SONIC"

And yeah, Sonic and Eggman pulling a Freaky Friday has always been my jam. There's something about it that just tickles my funny bone.

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I guess I'm trying to say that from one artist to another, I think your art's really nice and I resonate with it! I'm gonna play Antigravity once I have some spare time!

Ty, I'm glad you're enjoying it. ^^ And no rush. I'm still working out the bugs in Antigravity.

Two recommendations, though: don't try to rollback or button-mash if you can. RenPy doesn't remember the last action you took while you're in the battle loop, so if you try to rollback during battle, it'll take you to the title screen.

I do want to see if disabling rollback will fix the issue, but that's for later. I'm currently working on making more maps.

[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.

[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!

[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 🥺💕

[manonamora-if]

Manonnnn! I know Renpy isn't your cup of tea but you're my last hope ;-:

my game is published on itch.io but when I search for it on the website, it's not there. I followed every thing the itchio help page stated but nothing so far .

bestow upon me your wise words oh Manon the great

~ your humble fan Anon

Imma be honest... Itch.io's search functions is sometimes super rubbish when trying to find something. Sometimes things will show, sometimes it won't ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Some stuff I know will affect the search:

the project is not published (Public, not Restricted/Draft)

the project has Disable new downloads & purchases toggled on

the project has Unlisted in search & browse toggled on

the project doesn't have any thing to "play" on the page, or to download (and if that's the case, you didn't create any devlog for it)

the project doesn't have a cover image [though sometimes it's does appear?]

the project is coded NSFW (metadata) but the account doesn't have NSFW toggled to visible

the project was just published (take a few days sometimes to appear)

the search term wasn't close enough to the title [try the full name of the project]

the title of the project is too "generic" for itch

you're selling a project for the first time

TBH... I usually use Google/other search engines to find specific games rather than itch's search bar. And looking at my analytics, most people find my projects through the Browse pages, Collections, or direct links to the project anyway...

[muslim-monster-marriage]

Hello! I know this is out of nowhere but I was wondering if you were looking for any support with the coding / renpy part of your game? I’m a Pakistani Muslim who’s also making a “dating sim/visual novel” but haven’t really gotten around to it consistentlyhaha. I just stumbled upon your game and when I say I speed ran through all the prologues- Anyways, I know making a game can be super taxing at times so if you’d like any support please let me know and I can send a message off anon with a main account lol (also jibrail fan over here I let the game recommend a character to me and when I tell you I felt so called out over how he’s my type-)

Hey! Thanks for dropping an ask - I love it when I see Muslim people play the game, because it feels like a cute inside joke, glad you enjoyed what's out so far 🥰🥰

And thank you for the offer! I've actually gotten my head around the coding a while back - what's really taking up my time is writing the script and drawing the art!

But, if you (or anyone) knows how to make android distribution builds for renpy please let me know. I've been meaning to make an android build for phone users ages ago, but I literally cannot figure it out for the life of me 😭

(Also Jibrail is my personal favourite, so snap ❤️)