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How To Make Your First Visual Novel

I'm yet again in a talkative mood, and as someone who has made/helped make over ten visual novels, I figured I would be Qualified™ to talk about it!

Step One: Pick Your Fighter... er... Engine!

Deciding the game engine you want to work in is the first step to having a game! Ren'Py is the most popular, free-to-use engine for visual novels, with tons of add-ons done by creators such as Devil Spiδεr and Feniks. Other commonly-used engines include Naninovel (an extension to Unity) and RPG Maker.

Step Two: Wait, What Goes In The Engine?

Whodathunk that for a visual novel, you need a story and visuals!

Clip Studio Paint has a series on making visual novel sprites, though any old art software works for making visual novel art. As for writing, I highly recommend Better Fountain, an extension to Visual Studio Code which enables to you to write in Fountain syntax. For music, I recommend Audiostock which gives access to hundreds of thousands of songs with their subscription service.

Step Three: But What Do I Do With All Of This?

Spoilers, your first visual novel... probably won't be your best. You have to make it to break the first timer's curse. Study your favorite visual novels, listen to other developers' processes, learn more about art/writing/music/etc., and remember that it doesn't have to be perfect. In a year of making visual novels, my work went from the left image, to the right:

You can do it too! Now go out there, and make visual novels!

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why do I feel like these three scenes have slight similarities? 🤔

[First image: Iggy from Our Wonderland; Arc 2]

[Second Image: Protag from Elevator Hitch; Ending 3B]

[Third Image: [You/Player] from Do NOT Take This Cat Home; Ending 25: "Seafood Sacrifice". (obviously, they weren't always a fish-)]

+ Small art I made of the three of them <3

Context:

Quick explaino!

While playing Our wonderland, I thought the scene where Iggy was slowly being digested, kinda reminds me back into another two Visual Novels I had played, called; Elevator Hitch and Do NOT take this cat home!

Tbh, I see small similiarities between the three! However, I think Iggy and Protag have a few more similarities than the Player in DNTTCH. They both wear glasses, both determined, both ( including the player from DNTTCH) getting eaten alive, died many times, stuck in a time-loop, have fluffy hair(I MEAN LOOK AT THEEEMMM), anxious, both cutie patooties anndddd both have jerkwad boyfriends (Iggy and Protag, Idk about the player-)

(honestly, Ilovelelevatorhitchourwonderlandanddonttakethiscathomesomuchthatit'sbecominganaddictionhelp yes I ship Protag with Coworker(Bryce Stryker-or whatever douchebag name he comes up with this time...) >:3.

Want to know more about these three? Want to see the beautiful creation they came from? Click these Links and Play them yourselves!!:

Our Wonderland

Elevator Hitch

Don't Take This Cat Home

also, and if u want, try out my game?:

Fractured Memories

And don't forget to support the ✨lovely✨ creators of these games!

@just-a-carrot

@racheldrawsthis

@pixeliminal

Day 15: Favourite update of the Remastered!

I honestly love the touch ups + extra CGs in the remastered!! Especially the Iggy sprites down below at the left side corner of the screen!

I MEAN, LOOK AT HIM!!!

Honestly, every single detail Carrot had put into the remastered makes it very very very very very very very very very very very yes, more very very very very oh lord how many very very very very very very hard to choose. There we go-

SOOOOO, ENOUGH OF MY RAMBLING AND TIME TO SHINE THE LIGHT ONTO THE UPDATES I FUCKING LOVE FROM THE REMASTERED >:D

yes, yes, most of these are Genzou, BITE ME >:/

ANNNDDD THAT'S A WRAP :P

Can't wait to see more updates in the remastered!! Obviously, take your time, Carrot :)

(I posted this one early since I have something on today LOL ;v;)

Day 20; Draw a silly OW doodle!

Ah- I kinda think about the shenanigans the Iggy Dolls will do. (And how annoyed Jerry will get by them-)

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"We no longer dream… We just want to live another day without bombing, without hunger, without fear."

I am a university student from Gaza. A young man who used to carry his university bag, and today he bears the burden of survival in a city that knows nothing but pain.

My home was destroyed. My land was seized by the occupation. My family lost everything.

Even water, bread, and medicine… became unattainable dreams.

We live days that don't resemble life… There's no enough food, no electricity, no clean water, not even safety. We spend the nights surrounded by the bombardment's lights, and the day searching for a morsel of food to satisfy our hunger or medicine to save a sick person.

Despite all this, I'm still trying to complete my studies. I still believe that knowledge has a louder voice than bombs, and that the pen is mightier than a bullet. But I can't afford university fees, and I don't have money for books or even internet access.

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Day 26: Iggy's birthday!

Happy Birthday, Iggy! I made Easter buy give you such a beautiful card he made just for you! :D

Haha, Oh silly Easter. You had one job. 🙂

anyways, you're fired-

ANYWAYS, time to give a proper Birthday speech to Ignatius Maxwell. *Stands up on car*

I hope you have such a lovely birthday! You've been through a lot yet you made it! 💕

Now, time for my gift.

One of my Galaxy babies, who shall grant your birthday wishes!! :D

:)

but, uh, don't forget to give him back after your birthday finish..obviously- hehe- uhm. Yeah ;3;

Have a nice day, Iggy!

Sincerely, JinksyWeirdo

+ Nester, Easter, Galaxy Baby (Jeffy).

(yes, I just realised Iggy's birthday is on April 30th ;3;" (doing two questions in one day WOOOOO lol-) ).

HUH????

HOOWWWWW??? AND WHY??? 😭😭...

Was it because of the gunshot sound effects? 🤔

If not, WHYYYYY???? 😭

Buxley (Bucks) at the end of Arc 1, after missing her axe-swinging towards Iggy;

(this meme reminds me so much of that CG/ Cutscene ngl gang...)

Anyways, Iggy x Bucks Axe for life. 🩵🪓🩵