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OK FOLKS HERE IT IS

Kill or be killed! Use your copious wit(?) to navigate a dance of death with everyone's favorite king of the rabbits 🐰👑

A micro VN created for O2A2 VN Jam 2023 featuring:

Dancing!

Acerbic ripostes!

Three different endings!

PAIN AND FEELS(???)

GOOD LUCK DON'T GET EATEN!

Available on itch.io! Can be played in browser or downloaded for Windows, Mac, Linux, or Android!

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Hi. Hey. Hello! Cross posting this from the bird page.

I swear I'm not just three chonky raccoons stacked on top of one another in a cozy sweater. Or maybe I am. Would that change anything?

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Our Kickstarter is now live! 😱💖

All your support means the world, thank you for being here with us! Of Sense and Soul is our Queer Victorian Romance visual novel and it has...

Two lives, one love story 🎩👓

Victorian setting 🕰️

Soft queer romance 🌈

Slow burn pining 🔥

Happily ever after 💖

Help us make Of Sense and Soul a reality and back our campaign here! 💪

(Backing is just one way to support the game; you can reblog & like this post to help us with our community challenges, too!)

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Setting up your .gitignore for Ren'Py games version controlled by Git

Version control is great. If you're not using it already for any gamedev adventures, you should really consider doing it.

Git is the one I see used more often (in conjunction with such distributed versioning services like GitHub or GitLab) and for a good reason - it's the industry standard in pretty much any programming job I've done, there are plenty of tools to make its usage more simple (though I always recommend starting from the command line first, but that's a story for another day) and the aforementioned services are free to use for private projects.

However, if you were to just version-control all of your project with compiled scripts and all and you're not the only one committing stuff, you will soon encounter the dreaded merge conflicts - Git can't really track binary files (compiled scripts are usually this) well and if two people are touching the same file - Boom! Some shenanigans and headaches are bound to occur.

Enter the .gitignore file. It lives in your project root directory (the one you set up git tracking for) and shows you which files not to track with version control.

This is the one I use, but other people have also shared theirs.

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Reap Your Love - our #OtomeJam entry is now live on itch!

When three reapers want to reincarnate you in their worlds, whom will you choose?

For the jam version, only the route for Eugene, the steampunk reaper, is complete with more to come.

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Our Kickstarter campaign is live!!!

👑 Play as an Empress

🌈LGBTQ+ positive story

💕Enticing romance

⚔️Meaningful choices

📜Optional kingdom management

Help us bring Imperial Grace to life, back us on Kickstarter 🙏

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could i ask you how you edited the quick save menu to be images above the text box??

I've been meaning to make a simple Ren'Py GUI for download, so why not document the whole process?

I'm starting off with a new Ren'Py project with white/green GUI and 1920x1080 screen size.

First of all, we need at least idle and hover icons that we will use in our quickmenu. I created these and so that they're organized, I put them under /gui/quick_menu folder:

Next we need Ren'Py to use them. For that we find the following lines in screens.rpy:

And change all the textbuttons to imagebuttons, using our newly created icons (your URLs might be different based on where you put your icons or how you named them):

If your GUI shouldn't include a certain icon, you can remove it.

This is how it looks with just the textbuttons replaced (the quicksave is being hovered).

They're a bit too close together for my liking, so I decided to add some padding, by adding a style that will apply to these buttons:

This makes it much nicer looking and prevents misclicks:

I'll probably be leaving the icons down in the bottom for the textbox I have in mind, but just as an exercise, let's move them to the top of the current textbox.

For that I changed the xalign and yalign of the textmenu to absolute xpos and ypos values. These will be different based on how your textbox is positioned, but I found these values worked well for the default one:

And this is how it comes together.

I will be making all the code for this GUI I'm working on public, and here's the link to the commit for the changes described in this post.

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Resources For Describing Physical Things

Setting

Abandoned Mine

Airplane

Airport Check-in

Alley

Amusement Park

Attic

Bakery

Bank

Basement

Bathroom (home)

Barn

*GE* Barn 2 (Dairy Focus)

Beach

Bedrooms

Birthday Party

Bonfire

Bowling Alley

Bridge

Bookstore

Cafeteria

Casino

*GE* Catacombs

Cave

Church

City Park

Classroom

Closet

Coffee House

Courtroom

Cruise Ship

*GE* Cryogenic Sleep Chamber

Daycare

Desert

Diner

Dragon’s Lair

Dungeon (Caution Graphic Description)

*GE* Egyptian Pyramids

Elevator

Farms

Forest

Frozen Tundra

Gallows

Garage

Garage Sale

Garden

Graveyard

*GE* GLOBAL WARMING (dystopian)

Grocery Store

Halloween Party

Haunted House

Herbalist Shop (fantasy)

High School Hallway

Hospital

Hotel Room

House Fire

House Party

Kitchen

*GE* Laboratory

*GE* Laboratory (secret genetic)

Lake

Library

Locker Room

Meadow

Medieval Castle Armory

Medieval Marketplace

Middle School Dance (informal)

*GE* Mindscape (Mind Magic)

Mountains

Movie Theatre

Night Club

Nursery

Ocean/Sea Bed

Old Pick-Up Truck

Pirate Ship

Playground

Pond

Pool Hall

Prison Cell

Pub

Public Pool (Outdoor)

Rainforest/Jungle

Ranch

Restaurant

River

School Bus

School Office

Shopping Mall

Sleep-Away Camp

*GE* Spaceport

*GE* Spaceship

Stands at a Sporting Event

Storm Sewer

Subway Station

Swamp

Taxi cab

Teacher’s Lounge

Toolshed

*GE* Trailer

Treehouse

*GE* Tropical Island City

Urban Street

Video Arcade

Waiting Room

Waterfall

Water Slide Park

Wedding Ceremony (Church)

Woods at Night

Zoo

Weather

Air Pollution

Avalanche

Blizzard

Breeze

Clouds

Dew

Drought

Dusk

Dust or Sand Storm

Earthquake

Eclipse

Fall

Falling Star

Flood

Forest Fire

Frost

Hailstorm

Heat Wave

Hurricane/Typhoon

Lightning

Mirage

Mist or Fog

Moonlight

Mudslide

Rain

Rainbow

Sky

Sleet

Snow

Spring

Summer

Sunrise

Sunshine

Sunset

Thunderstorm

Tornado

Vortex

Wind

Winter

Color, Texture, & Shape

Color

Black

Blue

Brown

Gray

Gold

Green

Orange

Pink

Purple

Red

Silver

Spotted

Striped

Transparent

White

Yellow

Texture

Bumpy

Barbed/Spined

Crackled

Crumbly

Crusty

Foamy/Spongy

Fuzzy

Gritty

Pitted

Powdery

Prickly

Saw-edged/Serrated

Slimy

Smooth

Sticky

Shape

Arch

Circular/Sphere

Crescent

Heart

Oval & Oval-like

Rectangle

Spiral

Star

Square

Triangular

Tube

Wavy

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A thing that bothers me about wizard schools in popular media – outside of the magic-grade-school stuff, anyway – is that they're typically depicted as being basically magic universities, but their actual curricula and pedagogical approaches look much more like those of a technical institution. Like, buddy, that's not a wizard university, that's a wizard trade school. You can't just slap university student culture on top of trade school pedagogy. It doesn't work like that – the one emerges from the other!

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I reached this silly milestone in the word-count for a game idea I've been toying around in my head.

So naturally, I had to sketch how the love interest looks in my head.

My partner: What are you working on? Me: A horny character. My partner: Finally making that 🌶️ game? Me: No. He literally has horns.

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visual novel fans...

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Image reads:

When editing your work, ask yourself after each scene:

What did this scene change?

What choice did my characters make that further defines them?

Would I be missing any information needed later to tell the story if I cut it?

Can I make this scene do more than one thing?

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Reblog with yours and your reasoning, if you have one!

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Hi, friends!

Ever been curios about how Under Maintenance came to be? Grab your beverage of choice (here are some in-game recs: 🥤☕️🧋🍺🥃🍸) and check out Under Maintenance's Postmortem - it gets in the nitty-gritty of all parts of our development process.

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I never really liked playing with dolls as a girl.

So I'm compensating now by making fictional characters kiss.

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Kickstarter pre-launch page up!

Hello all! The pre-launch page for the Kickstarter is here. You can follow the project to be notified when it goes live in May! Please share the link around to anyone you think would be interested.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/harlevin/celestial-crowns