I might make a VN.....

[Ryahn]

So for those who have had the chance to chat with me in discord or on the many servers I am in. You may have read about my work situation. I pretty much live in an NTR world where I cant "date or touch them" in a way. Reason being, all of them except (as of yesterday) for 1, are all 17 years of age. Myself, I am 11 years old than them and its kinda weird at how things work out every day. Either talking about bra sizes, having to help one of them with a bra issue, changing in front of me in the back room (where the office is), etc. Its their they have full confidence in knowing I wont do anything or something. They all know I am single and I have formed a special relationship with a few of the girls.

So I kinda ponder on the idea of making a VN and probably read up on some tutorials on 3D models, etc. I was thinking of using VNM (Visual Novel Maker) due to it support JavaScript as a language or using RenPy. The only issue with RenPy, is that I know nothing about python and I kinda dont like the fact its whitespace sensitive.

Let me know what you think and any advice. Even though I am staff member here, I dont expect any special treatment or sugar coating.

 

[Humlebien]

Even though I am staff member here, I dont expect any special treatment or sugar coating.

J/K. Go ahead m8. While I provide nothing but encouragement for you to write about firm 17 year old girlies, it's still counts for something, right?

 

[Ryahn]

I hope that is brandy in that coconut

J/K. Go ahead m8. While I provide nothing but encouragement for you to write about firm 17 year old girlies, it's still counts for something, right?

*cough* 18 *cough*

Patreon wont allow 17

 

[Sam]

RenPy will mean easier development, you don't need to know any python for a basic VN type game.

VNM has the benefit of exporting as HTML5, however every VNM game I've played has been a buggy mess. I'm not sure if that's down to the engine or the developer. If you want to export to HTML5 and use JS you could also look at GMS and Twine.

 

[Papa Ernie]

The only issue with RenPy, is that I know nothing about python and I kinda dont like the fact its whitespace sensitive.

You can mitigate this with a decent source code editor like Notepad++. I have little to no background in programming, but I was able to figure out basic Ren'py fairly easily.

Good luck!

 

[Jimbles]

Judging by your signature, you should do it in RPGM. I've never touched VNM, but python is the easiest language to learn that I've ever come across and ren'py makes most things even easier. Now rendering on the other hand, it has a pretty steep learning curve to do well, at least in my opinion. However, you shouldn't let that stop you if it's something you want to do.

 

[Ryahn]

RenPy will mean easier development, you don't need to know any python for a basic VN type game.

VNM has the benefit of exporting as HTML5, however every VNM game I've played has been a buggy mess. I'm not sure if that's down to the engine or the developer. If you want to export to HTML5 and use JS you could also look at GMS and Twine.

I will look at those but I also just looked at unity. It supports javascript and from what I have been reading, it shouldnt be a hard transition to C#.

You can mitigate this with a decent source code editor like Notepad++. I have little to no background in programming, but I was able to figure out basic Ren'py fairly easily.

Good luck!

True, I use Visual Studio Code as of late.

Judging by your signature, you should do it in RPGM. I've never touched VNM, but python is the easiest language to learn that I've ever come across and ren'py makes most things even easier. Now rendering on the other hand, it has a pretty steep learning curve to do well, at least in my opinion. However, you shouldn't let that stop you if it's something you want to do.

I am going to talk to a few people I know, that do a lot of 3D rendering and see what it takes.

 

[DarthSeduction]

To put it plainly Ryahn, the amount of python I had to learn to code in Ren'Py is so small that I watched a 45 minute youtube tutorial and had my bearings. The only coding experience I had outside of this was a really poorly taught computer science course 12 years ago that dealt with C++.

That said, if you're comfortable with coding the other patform, go for it.

I'm sure you'll have no problem getting into the art side as well. You know the right people. Hell, if the premise is your actual life, then I'm sure that people will be clamoring for the chance to work on it with you.

 

[Ryahn]

To put it plainly Ryahn, the amount of python I had to learn to code in Ren'Py is so small that I watched a 45 minute youtube tutorial and had my bearings. The only coding experience I had outside of this was a really poorly taught computer science course 12 years ago that dealt with C++.

That said, if you're comfortable with coding the other patform, go for it.

I'm sure you'll have no problem getting into the art side as well. You know the right people. Hell, if the premise is your actual life, then I'm sure that people will be clamoring for the chance to work on it with you.

Maybe but I personally think no one is going to want to join on a project like this. I plan on setting up a patreon, since this is going to be in line with their guidelines. Unless their is a better platform to use.

 

[DarthSeduction]

Maybe but I personally think no one is going to want to join on a project like this. I plan on setting up a patreon, since this is going to be in line with their guidelines. Unless their is a better platform to use.

Mine is against their guidelines, but unless I find an alternative I'm gonna try to fly under the radar. That said, I got Hell's Perfect Spawn to join mine with no trouble. You can see what he's doing on the Hub, dude's really good. Not that you have to do it that way, I just know I'd spend a few months working with Daz before I'd ever make a game on my own.

 

[Ryahn]

Mine is against their guidelines, but unless I find an alternative I'm gonna try to fly under the radar. That said, I got Hell's Perfect Spawn to join mine with no trouble. You can see what he's doing on the Hub, dude's really good. Not that you have to do it that way, I just know I'd spend a few months working with Daz before I'd ever make a game on my own.

I guess I will look around and ask about. But I will see what it takes to get something started in RenPy and Unity.

 

[Jimbles]

I am going to talk to a few people I know, that do a lot of 3D rendering and see what it takes.

Good stuff, I'm happy you teach you anything I know if you have any questions about Daz or Ren'py.

 

[Palanto]

I can also just encourage you to try! Your "life" sounds interesting enough
Also if you go with ren'py I can recommend Atom + Ren'Py language plugin (Which will be included in some of the next versions of ren'py as a default editor). It helps a lot! Makes the whitespace problem not a problem anymore, syntax highlighting and some autocompletion and so on are included

 

[anne O'nymous]

Reason being, all of them except (as of yesterday) for 1, are all 17 years of age. Myself, I am 11 years old than them

Never thought that heaven and hell could be the same thing.

The only issue with RenPy, is that I know nothing about python and I kinda dont like the fact its whitespace sensitive

Like others said, you don't really need to know Python at first while using Ren'py, and you'll learn it step by step while adding little things to the code.
As for the whitespace thing, it was, with the mandatory indentation, what bothered me the most at first when I started Ren'py/Python. Then finally after few weeks past yelling every two minutes because of this, it finally became an habit. Just use an editor that you can configure according to the file extension, and define tabulation as four spaces, and you'll soon forget about it.

I don't know for VNM, but Ren'py have an advantage, it's both really sensitive and really robust. Which mean that it will yell for a lot of errors, mostly related to the syntax, but in the same time can run a bugged script without real problem. Disable the developer mode, and it will even be able to past through errors it was yelling about before. And with the interception of errors, you can both be warned of an error, and still continue to run the code.
Therefore, you can keep track of an error, and continue testing what you did before correcting it. It can be useful while learning.

 

[wep]

So for those who have had the chance to chat with me in discord or on the many servers I am in. You may have read about my work situation. I pretty much live in an NTR world where I cant "date or touch them" in a way. Reason being, all of them except (as of yesterday) for 1, are all 17 years of age. Myself, I am 11 years old than them

You just only need to wait one year! After that it's haunting season.

Talking about your project regardless the engine please remember to make modding and cheating easier (especially with unity). IMHO mod and cheat are a must in a porn game.

If you are not planning nothing too fancy (like a combat system) Renpy probably is the best choice. It is the standard for VN and people love it.

 

[CheekyGimp]

I'd suggest Renpy also. Don't need much programming skills, it's pretty intuitive once you get started. I started my own VN a couple of months ago. I didn't realise how long the development would take me (story, rendering, coding), but I'm not bored yet and after a while (a long while for me) it gets easier...

 

[Zippity]

You can mitigate this with a decent source code editor like Notepad++. I have little to no background in programming, but I was able to figure out basic Ren'py fairly easily.

Good luck!

I found the following set of tutorial videos easy enough to help figure stuff out in Ren'py... I have not done anything, but I found them one day when I was just curious...

You must be registered to see the links

 

[Aeilion]

I don't know what level of expertise you have in javascript but unless I'm mistaken you can use javascript to code under unity.
Sorry if it's been said, I admit I have not read all the messages.

 

[V.A. Laurie]

So for those who have had the chance to chat with me in discord or on the many servers I am in. You may have read about my work situation. I pretty much live in an NTR world where I cant "date or touch them" in a way. Reason being, all of them except (as of yesterday) for 1, are all 17 years of age. Myself, I am 11 years old than them and its kinda weird at how things work out every day. Either talking about bra sizes, having to help one of them with a bra issue, changing in front of me in the back room (where the office is), etc. Its their they have full confidence in knowing I wont do anything or something. They all know I am single and I have formed a special relationship with a few of the girls.

So I kinda ponder on the idea of making a VN and probably read up on some tutorials on 3D models, etc. I was thinking of using VNM (Visual Novel Maker) due to it support JavaScript as a language or using RenPy. The only issue with RenPy, is that I know nothing about python and I kinda dont like the fact its whitespace sensitive.

Let me know what you think and any advice. Even though I am staff member here, I dont expect any special treatment or sugar coating.

this just brings back wet dreams of a past life for me as a concept. I want to play this, so please write it.