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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?
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.
There's nothing wrong with preferring to work in your favorite language or framework, whatever makes you feel productive. But I find it odd in these threads when you get grumpy about people who like RenPy and act like it's hard to do certain things that are well within its core competency.
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
Implementing these features in other engines is tough so most authors don't do it, which can be a drag for people who have come to expect them.
Plus, for authors, it's possible to break open the source of any RenPy game you download so if you can't figure out how to do a particular type of scene or minigame you can just borrow from someone who figured it out.
Not to say you should change anything you're doing, just that there's a reason RenPy is popular even for games that aren't strictly "novels".
