Making a Ren'py game with Tk17 / KE content

[Dregar]

So, I've been a lurker of the MG forums for a long time, helped with some R9X stuff when that was a thing and recently started playing some erotic games based on the Ren'py Visual Novel Engine.

I've long planned to create some sort of erotic game myself but never found the in-game Sequencer to be of much help creating the content I need for that. Also lacking the experience to process image and video using screen capture software made this a plan that never came to fruition.

Long story short, I decided to give Ren'py a go a few weeks ago and I am truly amazed by how easy it is to make a simple game with some choices, etc. For the content itself I am using a lot of the resources found on the (now deceased) MG forums and some new stuff from KE. I use Fraps to screen capture images and videos, use Shotcut and Paint.net to edit what I want and write the story to go along with it. I have already amassed quite some content and have a big story plot set out, but that's all in my head. Maybe some day people would like to test the game and see if it's any good.

Anyway, I am wondering. Are there any other people on this forum working on similar projects? If so, what are resources you use to find out the more intimidating stuff in Ren'py, such as creating a shop/store system and inventory screen? How do you capture the poses and animations on screen (do you use Fraps or any other tools)? And maybe most importantly, how do you keep track of your own ideas and game story? It becomes a bit of a jumble real fast.

Would be interesting to read how other people go about this, so hope to hear from people doing similar things!

Oh and for example, here are some screens from the project itself:

 

 

 

 

[sadekhnd]

Check f95.Com forum with porn games. Most of games are made in renpy. Download them, then use unren (download from this forum as well) to unpack Code. Then you can check in Code how People make their games. Its usefull to learn some cool Tricks. 

[Dregar]

17 minutes ago, sadekhnd said:

Check f95.Com forum with porn games. Most of games are made in renpy. Download them, then use unren (download from this forum as well) to unpack Code. Then you can check in Code how People make their games. Its usefull to learn some cool Tricks. 

That is actually very helpful. Thank you very much for that!

[Smoke]

Been wanting to do something similar but never had the time. I mostly want to take the images and video to a next level instead of being “basic”. One thing that has been stopping me is the assumption of learning more coding. But hearing that it isn’t that hard, I might give it go. 

[sadekhnd]

1 minute ago, Smoke said:

Been wanting to do something similar but never had the time. I mostly want to take the images and video to a next level instead of being “basic”. One thing that has been stopping me is the assumption of learning more coding. But hearing that it isn’t that hard, I might give it go. 

renpy forum:

https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewforum.php?f=51

check build in documentation as well.

[arse22]

Renpy style games are very simple. The way to stay organized is the same in all of them, same way as they do story-choice driven game on console, the choices dont matter so it's always the same storyline. If you are doing alternate route or ending, you should only do it for fun, because you are essentially leaving that out of your finished product unless your player will choose to replay the game, which they wont, in fact most people dont even finish any game they start, statistically speaking.

Renpy offers a nice solution to a beginner/intermediate coder = it handles text and dialogue for you, which is actually a pretty big pain and very easy to fuck up and make much MUCH harder for yourself than it needs to be, which is only medium hard, if you are doing all code by yourself.

In general those types of games are games without gameplay, so they are efficient to produce than gameplay-centrict games since that is the most common style of game on mobile, the majority gaming audience.

[Futue_Driver]

My Idea is to create erotic novel on RPGM Engine because I want to allow for players the opportunity to explore the world, not only reading and choosing. I work on it but at the current moment these are only my ideas. You can also upload your game on f95zone.to and find a huge amount of testers there

Edited September 15, 2021 by Futue_Driver

[sadekhnd]

54 minutes ago, Futue_Driver said:

My Idea is to create erotic novel on RPGM Engine because I want to allow for players the opportunity to explore the world, not only reading and choosing. I work on it but at the current moment these are only my ideas. You can also upload your game on f95zone.to and find a huge amount of testers there

I'm not a fan of RPGM, , maybe because I'm a lazy person. I don't want to walk (in game too   ) I saw few Renpy games with world explore option. There wasn't actual walking but visting locations and it was fun because you could encounter some random actions, tasks, missions. Im RPGM you have to build your world, you need much time for that. It could happen you will be borred by the end of world creation and you will abandon the game. I saw it many times.  

[HDiddy]

If there is some interest to make RenPy games I think we can probably create a club specific for it, where folks can upload their games and files and resources for making them will be available.  Just a thought.

[sadekhnd]

6 hours ago, HDiddy said:

If there is some interest to make RenPy games I think we can probably create a club specific for it, where folks can upload their games and files and resources for making them will be available.  Just a thought.

Great idea, if some folks would like to join Im in but I'm afraid I would be alone in the Club

[Dregar]

On 9/16/2021 at 7:48 PM, sadekhnd said:

Great idea, if some folks would like to join Im in but I'm afraid I would be alone in the Club

Nah I would join too! I improved much on my TK17 game and story. I have all the assets needed, but lacking in script quality. Lately I've been busy reconstructing my house. But after that's done, I'm thinking of hiring someone to help me with my script. Might finish my game up soon after that. If there's a club I'm happy to share all my stuff to help others get going with their projects as well.

[Futue_Driver]

Yes! I think that a new club specific would be great for that))

Edited September 23, 2021 by Futue_Driver

[HDiddy]

Better late then never