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Kinda popped off with this one tbh

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I'll be boothing at CAFKL on June 8th-9th!!! My first local con ever so im really excited!

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Kamen Rider save me.... Save me Kamen Rider....

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Hi there!

I saw the game you coded and I think its really awesome!

I've been thinking about making a game for awhile but was always intimated by the fact that I don't know how to code things you said in the post for "A Pound of Flesh" that you hadn't done it before and I was hoping you might be able to point me toward some good resources for learning!

Thank you!!

HIHI!! So for 'A Pound of Flesh', I used the visual novel building system called Renpy to make it! It's basically a free software that streamlines a huge part of the visual novel making timeline and its also the main reason why I was able to develop it by myself in 36 hours.

Renpy uses Python to code visual novels, and when you download it, it immediately prompts a tutorial that teaches you the basics of coding in it which you can replay. It's not too in depth, but it provides enough that I was able to understand the main functions and also some other cool stuff that Renpy can do! Honestly because i only had 36 hours I didnt have time to pour over much resources, a lot of what I learnt came from typing in my questions into google and praying someone had asked it before in either a visual novel dev forum called Lemmasoft or reddit (and it often worked). Most people who help out will also give their own code that worked so I kinda reversed engineered it to learn on my own Tbh I'm sorry I couldn't help more! I kinda just went in hoping the best and didn't think I'd come out with a finished product.

But hopefully the forums and their website I linked down below will help you out if you decide to try Renpy out for developing! It's honestly not as hard as I thought it would be, and if you use Visual Studio Code there's even a plugin which highlights code for you making it so much easier to see what's part of the dialogue and what's actually just code

Forum link: Link Quickstart help website: Link

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The queen "A Resplendent Eclipse Heralds the Arrival of the Heavenly Celestial Daughter" and her High General in Command, Andreus.

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A Pound of Flesh link: https://karagna.itch.io/a-pound-of-flesh-concept

For this year's Global Game Jam, I decided "Hey why don't I solo dev an entire visual novel in Renpy with absolutely 0 prior knowledge in coding?"

And so I did! Presenting A Pound of Flesh (part 1), a short vn where you play as Agatha, a girl who begins working at a quaint butcher shop.

It's around 20 mins play time, and if there's interest I'll most likely add on more sections as well! Right now you can only play up to the end of week 1 because I only had 36-ish hours to code and draw the entire thing. Let me know what you guys think if you play it!

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A Pound of Flesh link: https://karagna.itch.io/a-pound-of-flesh-concept

For this year's Global Game Jam, I decided "Hey why don't I solo dev an entire visual novel in Renpy with absolutely 0 prior knowledge in coding?"

And so I did! Presenting A Pound of Flesh (part 1), a short vn where you play as Agatha, a girl who begins working at a quaint butcher shop.

It's around 20 mins play time, and if there's interest I'll most likely add on more sections as well! Right now you can only play up to the end of week 1 because I only had 36-ish hours to code and draw the entire thing. Let me know what you guys think if you play it!

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girl i don’t know how to say this. that’s not a found family that’s a platoon of child soldiers.

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Mech practice

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My Getimian exalted, Resplendent Eclipse, and my partner's exalt, aka her former general, Graves :]

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The original cardinal cartographer!! :]

A Cardinal Cartographer arguing with their friend about the next destination they should travel to

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Cardinal Cartographers are a small collective of people dedicated to mapping out new frontiers of the Violet Emptiness. They are easily identified by their double-tailed capes, representing the simple Twin-tailed Cardinal, a bird that can be found all over the deserts in the Emptiness.

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She KAMEN on my RIDER until I HENSHIN

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Ooooo biblically accurate Miku ooooooooo

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The verdict is in: They're both girliepop !

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Thundering Blade and her beloved

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"So Kara where have you been-"

IVE BEEN TRAPPED. IN A HYPERFIXATION. FOR THE PAST 2MONTHS.

THE ART BLOCK IVE BEEN EXPERIENCING FOR THE PAST 1.5 YEARS IS GONE, BUT AT WHAT COST.