University:
Boston University
Course:
CAS WR 153 | Writing, Research, & Inquiry with Creativity/Innovation
Academic year:

2024
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114

Pages:

16
Author:

Aaden Mosley

create your own visual novel Ren'Py is a visual novel engine that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell stories with the computer. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games.  Go to the folder renpy-6.12.1     and click the RenPy icon. Choose “New Project”. Choose your folder. Choose "template". Choose a color theme (don’t worry, you can change it later)  Click on “Edit Script”  Your script and images should all be in the same folder as your script. To see where your script is saved, click on File, Save As and look at the Path.  Instead of functions, we have “labels” in RenPy.  You still need to indent. Ex. label start : “First msg” “Second msg”  Start by deleting everything in the script editor  When entering text, remember to encapsulate it in double quotes. If you want double quotes to appear in the visual novel, you should put a forward slash before each one. “Hi, \”The Phantom of the Artemis\”” will be displayed as: Hi “The Phantom of the Artemis”  Go to RenPy and click “Launch” to see what your game looks like! (click to make the game go forward)  You don’t want you keeps typing the name of the character (in our example, “Me”) whenever they speak.  You can also choose a color for the name.  BEFORE “label start,” you can define characters like this: define m = Character(‘me’, color = “#c8ffc8) label start: m “blah blah haha” Define a character for ‘Me’ and ‘Durrah’ and place them at their respective locations (use m and d) Don’t forget the single quotes for the name! Don’t worry about the color, there are reference tables online (you don’t have to memorize the values :D)  Your code should look like this: (note the alignment)  And this is what you should see when you launch your game again:  The first part of an image name is the image tag. If an image is being shown, and another image with the same tag is on the screen, then the image that's on the screen is replaced with the one being shown.  You are allowed to use spaces!  For the background: .jpg or .jpeg  For the foreground: .gif  Saving the character in GIF format allows you to better integrate it with its surroundings, because GIF supports transparency.