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Ren'py now has something called Interactive Director, which lets you insert and adjust visuals (and soon, music) as you play through the script. Not exacty a drag and drop interface (you use a console-like menu) but it still feels like some kind of forbidden magic.
I am, honestly, still waiting for Degica's Visual Novel Maker. Using Ren'py for anything more than scripting out a very basic CYOA or kinetic novel vaguely irritates me. I might get over it, I might not. Same experience with TB.
Regarding art styles for a visual novel, I think it mostly depends on what you are trying to convey. Many purists will want an anime style (disregarding how incredibly diverse that actually is) while newcomers to the genre won't even know about its roots; but one of the most interesting almost-yet-not-quite visual novels I ever played was Hotel Dusk for the DS and it did its own thing, using a sketchy style of animation that brought to mind noir film more than anything else, and it was brilliant not only for the great visual impact and its memorable uniqueness, but because it actually set the tone for the story masterfully. Each game may demand something different: high fantasy will obviously work better with vibrant colors while urban fantasy may like gritty streets and some stories may benefit from photo-realism while in others it will just break willing suspension of disbelief. As a rule of thumb, I believe a modicum of stylization is quite beneficial to any immersive narrative, as it primes the player to overlook certain flaws that may otherwise be glaring.
I'd be very interested in your experiments with Sketchy, as I also think it has untapped potential (I was thinking about jury-rigging it for geometry shells so that it could be used with other specialty shaders, but haven't gotten around to it--it should be easy to use the brush as an opacity map). And I would love to be able to use the styles you are referencing--the only visual novel I can think of that comes even close is one of those fanservice things that aren't even proper erotica (I can understand people liking porn without plot, but porn without plot nor porn is completely beyond me), but I think it's a very fun and dynamic art style and would be very suited to light-hearted adventures.
As an aside, and seeing as I am more of a writer than a graphic artist, branching narratives present their own challeges, but, as most everyone, game writers have our own secrets: we cheat. We cheat like we developed a grave case of retrograde amnesia just before finals. Mostly, branching narratives have a solid storyline with some events that are inmutable and beyond the player's control, with choices affecting details around the situation. Telltale games (which I regard as animated visual novels, more than anything else) present masterful examples of this, with plenty of false choices (that is, events that give the player the illusion that they are choosing things while the game ignores them completely--what did you have for breakfast?--that, nonetheless, may add some character and immersion to a scene) cosmetic choices (you saved John and left Sarah to die and agonised over it for twenty mnutes; half an hour later, aliens attack and John/Sarah dies anyway) and actual choices that lead the story to one of the very few branches it has (for some games, that is exactly one branch).
Argghhh consistency in lighting! While still looking good, thus not just using flat headlamps! Those drawing-type artists do have an advantage in being able to cater to what people are already trained to.... hey, there's an idea. Finding another visual style and emulating it so people are better trained to ignore its flaws.... Hmmm....
One of the interesting things that lots of visual novels do is the idea of 'routes'. Ostensibly these exist so you can focus on a different character on each playthrough but the best of them end up producing heavily layered stories that reveal more and more of the setting and overarching story as you progress. But at the same time there's still a lot of choice and endings based on those choices. I think one of the things the ChoiceOfgames article I linked to above mentions is the idea of stats being used to help handle branching: each choice mostly affects the scene you're in or maybe a single line of dialogue, but as the story deepens it branches based on internal values calculated from those choices, and eventually you're locked into a path, and then an ending (and perhaps there are lots of Bad Ends and only two Good Ends per route).
Hello, this thread is very interesting. I am on the road to make a visual novel with a pure iray 3d aesthetic and with Tyrano Builder. I want to avoid going cartoon until my first visual novel fails as I want it to be. I dont care of market expectatives on visual novels to start with. My preference is iray photorealistic 3d visual novel with no animations at all but every picture should be amazing to dare at while reading.
This is the other style I find myself looking at a lot and wishing I could achieve. The eyes aren't QUITE as distinctive but that may be because it's an anime. And there's still definitely some distinction. Some of it ends up being pupil size (or the 'closed eyes' look) and it's subtle, but there.
My theory is that visual novels benefit from a lot of focus on good eyes, since there's not a lot of action to otherwise help define the character.
Oh! I didn't quite parse what you said about "Maybe"? A morph for Deco?
the only problem i see its not be able to add "battle systems, love/hate count system, cutscene, and art (so many people are going to scream at me...) " within tyranobuilder. the only thing useful would be the htm5 export everything else can be done by renpy. i have no clue why tryanobuilder even added CSS has their language program that kind of stuff is for experts who have years of training. lastly 14.99 is a rip off, i can easy build 1 novel in renpy that looks identical to tyranobuilder in just 1 day.
It's super limited sure, but for the average commoner that just wants to write a simple visual novel in ADV style (no gameplay, just sprites, background, music and writing) this really makes the process a whole lot simpler and I don't think that's a negative side, personally.
I don't see this as a lazy way out because this is not even a way out to begin with, it's not like this is meant to create masterpieces with lots of unique elements, it's just a tool to make simple ADV style visual novels with or without branching paths. And on that end, it's perfectly fitting if you're not the kind that's really into learning programming language.
Navigate your relationships and figure out the truth behind the ghost of a 80s children's TV show host who's been haunting you in this fully voiced R-18 visual novel filled with nostalgia, romance, and horror. Can everyone get their happily ever after?
Well written article for aspiring visual novel creators. I feel like this is releasing at a good time as we are beginning to see the results of effort in the OELVN community. As visual novels become more popular in the west it is only expected that some people will be willing to make their own games. Excellent guide thanks for sharing.
NScripter (エヌスクリプター, Enusukuriputā), officially abbreviated as Nscr, also known under its production title Scripter4, is a game engine developed by Naoki Takahashi between 1999 and 2018 functioning with its own script language which facilitates the creation of both visual and sound novels. The SDK is only available for Windows. From version 2.82, NScripter supports both Japanese characters - these are two bytes long - and any single-byte character; before that, it only supported Japanese characters. This engine was very popular in Japan because of its simplicity and because it was free for amateur game makers. Additionally, there are forks available to extend NScripter's capabilities to display characters from another language, run a game on other platforms, etc.
The script is executed by the engine in an interpreter. The syntax is very simple, similar to the BASIC language. The functions needed to create visual novels and sound novels, such as displaying text, sprites and CG, playing music and handling choices, are built into the engine as a basic API. As a result, game creation is simplified by the ability to write a script that calls these functions directly.
On the other hand, before version 2.92, object-oriented elements were not incorporated into the software and NScripter did not handle parallelism at all. The defsub statement was used to try to do structured programming within NScripter. Overall, NScripter specialises in the development of visual novels and sound novels, and the creation of these types of games is simplified.
Any visual novel that is not linear or called 'kinetic novel' has choices. This script also contains the instructions used to display a background image and, in addition to that, with a fade-in effect per pixel.
Scripter3 (スクリプタースリー, sukuriputāsurī), officially abbreviated as Scr3 is a free proprietary game engine developed by Naoki Takahashi between 1998 and 1999 functioning with its own script language which facilitates the creation of both visual and sound novels. The SDK is only available for Windows. It is the predecessor of NScripter, another Naoki Takahashi engine with a more flexible syntax and more functionalities; for example, NScripter natively supports images in JPEG/JPG format while Scripter3 needs a DLL named 'jpeglib.dll'.
Scripter3 handles the text but does not handle the rest of the graphic part of the text boxes, which is essential for any visual novel to establish a contrast between decor and text. Developers have to incorporate the text box graphics directly into each background image, so there is often a copy of a background image without a text box and another with one. As a result, if the player right-clicks to hide the text, the text box remains displayed, because it is integrated into the background image.
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