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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!

What I thought Broomtail was going to be like;

Context:

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There's no context to this. Ig a parody of Broomtail or smth Idk 😶

DOING THIS BECAUSE MY SOONTOBECOMIC OCS ARE FLOODING ME HEAD ALONG WITH OW AND EASTER AJKDKFKSMDKF

Also, because I'm bored.

1) Draw your OC in their normal clothing.

Keith Williams!

This mf keeps running around my head.

Some small facts about him!

- He cries while watching Gossip Girls and Titanic

- Loves cosplaying

- He's a fandom weeb (like indie games, novels, shows, etc)

- Has an American accent

- Always makes up stories about his scar Lolololol.

W.I.P Chapter 1 #2:

The clumsy life had chose you, Iggy Maxwell UvU

"I wish I could make my friends this happy forever."

That scene hurt me.

When I first watched that scene. Read that text. Seeing how Iggy only wanted his friends to be happy, putting their wants and needs above his own, seeing how he only thinks about them...It made my heart ached. I didn't even notice that I was crying myself until I saw my keyboard getting wet lol.

After watching that scene, that aching in my heart and the confusion on why I cried didn't fade away. I think it took me about a week or two to know why. Maybe because I felt that familiarity and similarity of wanting to put others happiness before my own.

Before 2025, before finally breaking the walls I've created, I've always felt the need to put others happiness before my own. My family's and friends'needs and wants over my own that I forgot what I had wanted. Until I went to High School and reality punched me in the head. When my old friends drifted away, the connection I felt broke from my grasp. I was lost.

Lost, confused, scared and isolated for one and a half years. Pretending to be someone that they wanted me to be, hiding away the person with their own dreams. I've always been so fucking anxious on what my future will be, on what others think of me, and scared on what my friends think of me. It's hard to explain how I finally escaped on the cage I've built but I think the realisation that what I was doing isn't what I wanted but what others wanted me to be, finally broken the shell.

Now, I'm happy. Grateful for my life, grateful to be around people who understand and care about me for just being me, for understanding my own needs and wants, for putting up my weird ass humour.

I think the reason why that scene, that sentence, stabbed my heart was because I was just like Iggy. Wanting to please others, wanting his friends to be happy despite himself. I never thought that I would have a connection to Iggy. And I never read/played a visual novel that kissed a brick and bash into my heart repeatedly. Which, I meant was, I never played a visual novel that touched my heart...

I'm happy that Iggy got to find his own happiness and make his own choices.

I'm happy that I found my own happiness and made my own choices.

Life is precious. Cherish every single moment of it. Make your own choices. Find your own happiness. ♥️

Gosh. Our Wonderland really is an emotional rollercoaster. 🌹

Yummy dinner 😋🍴

really happy with this one i'll be honest

Relatable.

W.I.P

A small project(video series???) I'm planning to do! Will it drain my phone's life? Yes. Will it hurt my fingers? Yes.

But will it make you laugh? Honestly, I don't know but I DO KNOW IT'LL MAKE YOU CRINGE!

UPDATE: I switched to Kinemaster due to problems on Capcut.

Day 16; If I went to Wonderland, what would my wish be?

Despite me being quite grateful for the things I have around me, I have quite a few wishes and weird shit I'll do in Wonderland. (Hopefully this doesn't lead me to being corrupted 🙏)

Wish 1; A looping food.

I would wish to have a slice of Aussie pizza (that fried egg, cheese and ham on top 🤤), that always regenerate after taking a bite.

I ain't falling down a rabbit hole without some fucking food or snacks >:/

Wish 2; INFINITE FUCKING WISHES,

Imagine how cool that would be to have infinite wishes at any time! Although, I think I would be corrupted by this wish since there are a lot of advantages and disadvantages of this wish. Like, having the ability to have unlimited wishes would cause chaos.

Eh, younger me wouldn't give two flying fucks.

Wish 3; HAVE GOOD EYE SIGHT AGAIN

OMFG, I HATE FUCKING GLASSES. I JUST WANT TO CHOKE THE EVER LASTING SHIT OUT OF MY YOUNGER SELF FOR THINKING GLASSES WERE SO COOL-

What I would do in Wonderland;

Honestly, if I somehow ended up in Wonderland, I would spend a small amount of time there, mucking around, eat some sweets there (if not by Orlam) then try and make my merry way home. :v

That's about it I think 🤔.

Oh yeah!!! If I was in Wonderland with the OW cast then I'm screwed! Cause I lack speed and intelligence to even be in Wonderland. I would be better at home than going into a horror fantasy world, trying to run away from creatures back and forth. Even trying to survive Orlam, Gidget and Bucks!

I would not out run Gidget's fanbies, I cannot deal with Orlam's insanity nor outrun his rabbits and I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT beat a strong woman like Bucks! ;n;"

update: i finished all the drawings and timings and am very happy with how it turned out 🤭

now i will just need to color everything, figure out what to do with the bgs, and polish up the design...