I have to ask, what is it about the maps/screens in your games that is more complex than the ones you showed from Mythic Manor / Hero's Harem Guild?
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I see a static background and a bunch of hotspots to click on, some of which are animated. Which feels to me about the same as what's in most sandboxy RenPy games (though most authors don't bother to implement animations).
I can definitely see it being tough to implement the car driving from Fake Family in RenPy, or the freely positioned text characteristic to your games. But it's not impossible.
Back when I wasnt banned on the F95 discord(I was banned 3 times for been too handsome) this always happened:
Remply DEV: There is nothing especial in your game that you cant do in remply
GDS: so why Every Remply game looks the same and none does what I do
Remply DEV: Remply CAN do the same
GDS: Gives a small list of things that CANNOT be done easly on Remply
Remply DEV: Takes 5 hours to replicate those things on remply, And proudly shows that remply can do anything
- But he just prove it's impossible to make a game like that because:
- what takes me seconds to do, it takes in remply minutes FOR EVERY LINE OF TEXT,<< it really adds up
-you may not notice playing Chloe games but every line of text, every option, ever move icon, etc are on a different X,Y and it takes me a clickof mouse to do it, And remply it'd takes 1m at best(for line), longer if you want to change it or put in a "better" Place
-Particles , reply aint a game engine(novel engine) so cant really do particles or Sprites. I removed most particles because my mac it too old and cant play them to debug but you can kind of notice when you click your mouse.
-The secret menu, or the Turn base Pixel game hidden inside the Fake family, or the 2d side scrolling with D&D battles
-the sex control that remember old Flash games
dont take me wrong, just because you could make skyrim in HTML, it doesnt mean it's a good idea or even worth the trouble
YOU CAN make a "GAME" and not a "NOVEL" in remply but the same apply
There's certainly things that are easier to do in other engines compared to RenPy, like if you want to do fancy shaders or a bunch of different parallax layers or 3d or whatever.
The tradeoff is that RenPy games have a common interface and built-in functionality that is comforting to people who play many games, such as:
* Save anywhere
* Configurable text speed
* Rollback
* Hold ctrl to skip
common interface mean that the game have no personality, You played ONE game all looks a like,
* Save anywhere , NOT possible unless I take over 1 week to do it every update just because one thing > open the game save file it have over 1k variables, + 30k text X,Y variables + sex animation and images are dynamic loaded from the DATA folder
only the version for the beta test have a save everyone option(it works only on widows and is so-so).
to avoid the need I made the game so you dont need to save scum.
* Configurable text speed > why anyone want that? everyone use instant text, so I just removed text speed back on Chloe18
* Rollback > that's a good point, but again only NOVELS have those, because it's a pain to put it anywhere else(drunk me cant do that)
* Hold ctrl to skip > I just made the skip go to the right mouse button, so you can always play with one hand.. this is a adult game after all ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
