How To Make Your First Visual Novel

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:

How To Make Your First Visual Novel
How To Make Your First Visual Novel

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

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1 month ago

My sister playing Arc 3;

Her; I have a theory

Me; Oh great another one- What's up?

Her; Could Orlam and Genzou be half brothers? Like, they both have beef with each other so much-

Me; No.


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1 month ago
Day 12; Personal Headcanon

Day 12; Personal Headcanon

Yes sir, ma'am, boss! I have many personal Headcanons for the beautiful cast. This is all in Post OW btw.

Iggy;

- Does Online workout/yoga sometimes (in secret ofc)

- Had bout 200 Kirby plushies but lost them all throughout childhood, only one remains.

- Tried to have a secret diary but often lost it for about two weeks.

- When drunk, he'll easily sob over an emotional scene. (Ex - Dog dying, a character dying, two characters in love-)

- He broke his glasses two times.

Genzou;

- He loves wacking Orlam with his walking stick.

- Tried rapping but gave up. (Spoilers alert, his mother did not appreciate the spitting-)

- Often gave weird stuff to Iggy on his birthday. (Yes, yes, this was inspired by that face-towel post -3-)

- Is banned from 50 churches.

- Buys canned foods and microwave food.

- Wanted a dog but can't afford to take care of one.

Orlam;

- Love pranking Iggy and Jerry on random days. (Often Jerry.)

- Scolds anyone who makes spaghetti wrong and slaps them with a wooden spoon. (And will proceed to make them redo the whole dang thing all over again)

- Has two rabbits roaming around in his house.

- Calls Jerry to get his take-out food.

- Has 100+ online and offline ex's.

- Plays with his rat tail whenever bored.

Gidget;

- They are a workaholic.

- Will try and find time to either speak with the group (mostly Iggy + Cecil) or rest.

- They watch Kdrama shows.

- Does online shopping after their second paycheck.

- Would use new gen slang on Cecil (and uses it very badly... ._.);

Gidget; That's not very Ohio rizz of you emo boy ✨✨.

Cecil; Gidget. I'm literally considering going to therapy if you keep this up.

Bucks;

- Often will scold new DnD players whenever they had done something so utterly stupid.

- Always throwing a barbecue on either her birthday or Hunar.

- Loves spooning Hunar.

- Tried boxing but stopped after one bad fight.

- She loves the Library because of Hunar.

- Often trying to find silly nicknames to give to the cast in the GC.

Hunar;

- Published about 20+ books, both for adults and children, and mostly in the genre of Heavy Fantasy.

- Trusted Bucks ONCE to cut his hair- (and now have a small bald spot in the back-)

- Tries to playfully wrestle Bucks but always loses.

- Sleeps on the table or on his desk whenever writing over night.

- Coffee addict.

- Trying to get used to the new gen slang (and just like Gidget, failing very miserable);

Hunar; you are such a beautiful gyatt.

Bucks; *bursts out laughing*

Hunar; W-What? ;_;

- WILL ABSOLUTELY RAGE AT WHENEVER A PLAYER DOES SOMETHING SO STUPID DURING THE DND SESSION, THAT EVEN BUCKS HAS TO CALM HIM DOWN BEFORE HE CHOKES THEM-

Cecil;

- Been to 15 private Catholic schools.

- Often attend Church.

- Can speak in 12 different languages.

- Had been in various instruments lessons. (And is only good at Piano, Violins and flute)

- Been forced to do the things above ⬆️.

- His parents will call him only to see if he's married or at least have a stable job.

-He gets into an argument with them that at one point, he stays over at Gidgets.

- He loves rich tea.

- Has major trust issues.

- Has a black cat.

Jerry;

- Attempted to create an Orlam Hate GC whenever he gets underpaid ( which nobody had joined except for Genzou and Orlam would always find out).

- Rage baits on 13-year Olds on Roblox.

- Rage quit whenever he's on second in DTI.

- Insecure about his two front teeth.

- Tries to prank Orlam but always back fires.

- Often sends anonymous complaints to Orlam (and Orlam still finds out-)

- Complains to literally anyone about Orlam!

- Wanted a pet rabbit but his gold fish died.

- Plays Just Dance.

- Had sideburns once. (Until Orlam shaved it all in his sleep-)

- Buys 30 bunny plushies to comfort him.

Saydie (if Hunar and Bucks decides to have a kid and she's like around 7-8?) :

- Often asks Hunar for sugary cereals. (Which he says no despite Bucks begging along with Saydie)

- Loves tennis and Netball.

- Gets the group's names mixed up (except for Genzou);

Saydie; Hi...! Uhm...Iggy?

Orlam; Nope. Orlam.

Saydie; Oh! Sorry. Hi uncle Orlam! *Turns and looked at Gidget.*

Hi, Iggy!-

Gidget; Still wrong sweetie.

Saydie; shit.

Hunar; Language!

- Often swears in secret (and mostly getting caught by Genzou or Bucks).

- Loves riding any new bikes Genzou gives to her.

- Tries and tackle Bucks but always loses.

- She loves reading Hunar's books.

- She always brags about her parents to her friends.

That's a wrap! :D


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1 month ago

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1 month ago

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1 month ago

Random Thoughts:

I am still surprised that I played Our Wonderland for free..

Like, before I even downloaded Our Wonderland, I was like; 'ah, a Queer visual novel with problematic 30 year Olds going into Wonderland? Sounds interesting enough. This would be a piece of cake-"

Bro, Our Wonderland touched yet beat up my heart like there's no fucking tomorrow. I HAVEN'T EVEN CRIED AT A VISUAL NOVEL (only internally BUT NOT OUTSIDE) UNTIL PLAYING OUR WONDERLAND.

Like the characters!?!??!?!? The plot!?!? The humour- 🫶👌- THE ANGST!?!? AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE ENDING. LIKE I WAS FUCKING BAWLING MY EYES OUT WHEN IGGY WISHED HE NEVER EXISTED. I'M LIKE; "WAIT, WHAT, NO, NO, NO," until I saw that it wasn't actually the end of the game- just the arc.

BUT GOD FUCKING DAMN IT. THE ENDINGS AT EACH ARC WAS LIKE KNIVES STABBING INTO MY HEART-

And when I finally finished Our Wonderland. I slowly laid back down on my bed and cried both tears of joy and sadness-

Like, I played that visual FOR FREE. WTF.

Also, when first playing it, I thought Cecil was like an alternate emo version of Iggy-

Anywhizzle, that's all of my yapping.

R.i.p five tissue boxes, for sacrificing their lives while I played Our Wonderland.

🤧😞🫡🥀


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2 months ago

Awww Look At these Cuties!! 💖💖

[!G0R3 W@RNING!]

Awww Look At These Cuties!! 💖💖
Awww Look At These Cuties!! 💖💖
Awww Look At These Cuties!! 💖💖

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

Awww Look At These Cuties!! 💖💖

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


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2 months ago
Ha, This Time I Got YOU! 
Ha, This Time I Got YOU! 
Ha, This Time I Got YOU! 
Ha, This Time I Got YOU! 
Ha, This Time I Got YOU! 
Ha, This Time I Got YOU! 
Ha, This Time I Got YOU! 

Ha, this time I got YOU! 

Now you’re ͓̞̠͛́ͅs̜̙͖̬͖̮̼ͤͩ̌́͗͗̀m̜͕̃͞ì̜̼͂͌ͣͪl̤̻̗͆ͧ̀ͅi̫̣̠̙ͪ̋̓͡n̄ͮ̀ͭ̀͌g̡͎̯ͩͥ for noooo reason! Hee hee hee!

I had the urge to try my hand at portraying one of my favorite moments from the No Mercy Run, and BOY do you not truly realize how much you need to learn and improve at until you draw comics 

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