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[xenubins-circus]

Carnival Of Shadows out now!

My visual novel for #vampjamp (Queer Vampire Jam) is out now! go check it out on itch: https://xenubinstudios.itch.io/carnival

Available for PC and Mac

[vaadazen-codes]

2 BIG Tips for formatting your VN script

Are you a Visual Novel writer? Or at least are you writing a visual novel? Don't know how to format it? good news, I'm here to give you some tips for formatting your script to make it 10x easier on the programmer to implement into RenPy!

All of these tips apply to Google Docs, since that's the most commonly used script writing platform for VNs, especially given the collaboration that goes on for them and for game jams!

Page Set Up

These tips are the most important of this whole doc, because it prevents everyong (writer or programmer) from having to find and replace later!

Turn off Smart Quotes

Turn off replacements for ... and -

To do that, go to your tool bar at the top and go to tools > preferences

see it down there at the bottom?

then just uncheck tthe smart quotes box.

Here's an example of what mine looks like to make things easier, though the others don't matter as much.

To turn off substitutions, you have two options.

Manually uncheck the boxes

Turn it off altogether.

I personally chose to turn it off all together, most of what it is is just things like 1/2 becoming a visual fraction, or < - - turning into <-.

If you chose to manually uncheck them, there's only really two that'll need to be checked off!

The one for ... and the one for -- or --- Why do you need to do this? Well unfortunately, renpy and most code editors don't recognize them as characters, and it can cause some issues with the dialogue text being displayed.

Choice Dialogue

This one isn't a huge deal, but after working on quite a few jam projects and personal VN projects, I've found a way that seems to work best for allowing your programmer to efficiently implement them! (Or yourself if you write and code for your projects like I do) use tables in google docs! Here are some examples from some of my projects:

It's pretty c lear what the options are for each menu choice this way, since they're color coded and have some sort of indicator before them to seperate them.

This also makes it easier to know where the choice menu dialogue ends.

The colored parts are the menu label itself, so what shows up on the screen

and then the rest is the dialogue branch for that choice!

between these two, the biggest majority of your programmers job will now be making sure things don't break, instead of spending hours finding and replacing certain things, or having to pause to wait for an answer if your team is in all sorts of time zones!

[vocaloidsongtournament]

November 2024 Vocaloid Song Tournament

Round 2, Set 4, Match 4: Kowase Kowase by E.L.V.N. vs. AFTER BURNER by Hal

Please listen to both songs before casting your vote! And please reblog for a bigger sample size!

Which of these MEIKO songs is the best?

Kowase Kowase

AFTER BURNER

See results

Voting ended onNov 21, 2024

[tigerrampage]

Visit Original Link

Rainbow Colored Letters feat. Kagamine Rin - E.L.V.N l album: MOON (2012)

[iconsynth]

《 Kowase Kowase 》

壊セ壊セ by E.L.V.N

《 free to use; reblogs appreciated 》

[voca-song-a-day]

Today’s featured song is: “Kowase Kowase” by E.L.V.N feat. MEIKO! (cw: themes of abuse)

[pjdivarvo]

★Kowase Kowase 【ELVN】

[sinsisters]

The Spanish Privateer Kickstarter is now live! Pledge by Thursday, 9PM EST to get early bird discounts!

The Spanish Privateer is a pirate otome visual novel that takes place during the Golden Age of Piracy, featuring Isabel Carlota de Castilla, the altar runaway, and three romanceable men (the captain, the quartermaster, and the bard)! The game will feature 227K words, sixteen endings total, love, friendship, and personality meters, and approximately six CGs per route! Support our Kickstarter here, and play the demo here.

Psst! Check out some screenshots below!