Game is pretty okay, I like the setting
But the white text on the light background is a bit hard to read
Does anyone know how to change either of those?
Edit: I attached my modified gui.rpy file in this comment. Make a backup of your own before replacing it just in case.
Or follow the instructions below if you want to do the modifications yourself.
You can change it in the gui.rpy file found in the "game" subfolder.
I tried changing it from white to black but that didn't help much. The background illustrations of the text box obscures the text. I tried a whole bunch of different colors but nothing worked. I also tried increasing the size of the text, but that didn't help either.
What I ended up doing was changing the text from white to black and then repositioning the text so that it doesn't go over the illustrations on either side of the text box.
So this is what you do (in Windows 10):
Right click on gui.rpy and select "Open with", then choose more apps and select notepad (uncheck the box that says "always open rpy files in this app")
Once you have the gui.rpy open in notepad you want to change these settings:
In the "Colors" section:
## The colors used for dialogue and menu choice text.
define gui.text_color = u'#000000'
define gui.interface_text_color = u'#000000'
(The 000000 is black text. It's set to ffffff by default which is white.)
In the "Dialogue" section:
## The placement of dialogue relative to the textbox. These can be a whole
## number of pixels relative to the left or top side of the textbox, or 0.5 to
## center.
define gui.dialogue_xpos = 575
define gui.dialogue_ypos = 35
and
## The maximum width of dialogue text, in pixels.
define gui.dialogue_width = 785
Then click on the File menu in the top left and choose save, and start the game.
This moves the text more to the middle of the text box and a little higher. It also limits the width of the text. All the text should be contained within the text box, but I haven't gone through the entire game to check that yet. Some text might go outside the box on the bottom. If that's the case, you can also change the font size. You can find it under the "Fonts and Font sizes" section in the gui.rpy file:
## The size of normal dialogue text.
define gui.text_size = 36
It's set to 36 by default I think. As I wrote above, I tried to increase it to 42, but that only made it worse. In case some text goes outside the box, just reduce it some. Maybe to 32 or something. Just try and see what works.