Ren'Py an idea for a beginner guide

[badi90]

Before I start. I want to apologized for my bad English . its not my native language and I learned it from tv .. so, before continue reading this post throw away all grammar u know ….

That being said. am not a programmer or artist . but I always enjoy playing with daz3d because I always want to try to build my own game for fun .. I have a little time and yet every time I get time to spare, I use daz to learn new thing

Now I want to do the same with renpy .. am trying to create a free roaming game with map navigation, 24 hour time cycle. Events / Quests system. And Tracking system for now.

I tried to look on YouTube how to make the game and mostly I found a liner story game guide with couple of choices . or more advance type of guide and couldn’t follow them since am not a programmer .

So I thought I would break my learning game journey . for now I would like to create a map. where I could travel from 1 area to another . and I thought there should be a guide to show how to do so and for future reference for anyone who is not a programmer and would like to build a game or don’t know where to start , I know it’s not as simple as typing one code or there is one way to do so . but if anyone could help with simple example of one way of doing so

Thank you for reading and any advise reference or comment would be appreciated

 

[anne O'nymous]

for now I would like to create a map. where I could travel from 1 area to another .

What do you mean ? A map like RPG maker, where the character move cell by cell, or a map like in usual Ren'Py games, where you click on an area to move to it ?

The first one is a bit complex, and writing a guide for it would need to cover many topics, including at least an

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implementation. This while for the second one or two dozen lines would be enough:

• Create a screen representing the map ;
• Either use an
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  (outdated) or
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  s to represent the areas ;
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  the screen each time the player should be facing the map.

What in code mean:

screen myMap():

    add "images/map background.jpg"

    imagebutton:
        idle "area1.jpg"
        xpos 100 ypos 100
        action Jump( "area1" )

    imagebutton:
        idle "area2.jpg"
        xpos 500 ypos 800
        action Jump( "area2" )

label map:
    call screen myMap

label area1:
    "You enter area1"
    [...]

label area2:
    "You enter area2"
    [...]

 

[badi90]

yes thank you ... a simple example can explain a lot