Hey folks. I have a question. Purely hypothetical what is needed to make a high quality VN? What equipment and what are the costs in the beginning if I don't have a good computer? And of course, how important are computer skills? I will be grateful for your response. And I hope you understand my English.
Personally, I went in with no skills whatsoever in what's needed, meaning programmation and 3D tools, but like everything you can (more or less) learn and self taught yourself to death... First I googled the shit out of what's needed to make a Ren'Py game, then downloaded the free programs out there, then look at some tutorials, then dived right in and never looked back since.
So technically what I use: Ren'py (free) to create the game, Daz Studio (free) to do the renders, and Atom (free) to do the script.
For skills, like other said: programmation (the basics are fairly easy to learn with ren'py tutorials, then when you have a block, just dive into the community, lots of people out there that are happy to help and/or that had the same problems before), 3d tools (again, the basics of Daz Studio are fairly simple to learn with tutorials), then after that it's good old writing skills for the story (for the language try finding help to proofread).
For gears: You need an ubermachine, yes you can do with crap, but it will quickly shot your motivation when you realize how limited you are by your computer.
Then finally you need: motivation (a huge fucking amount if you come from zero like me) and time (have no illusion, you need a LOT of it).
Stupid question alert: how do you get those banners that you see at the bottom of some people’s posts?
You need to add the links of the "banner" into your signature of your profile.
I can help you with the links of the ones somebody made for my game if you want, for other games you will have to search a bit on the forum, but I know that there is at a few people specialized in it.
Just finished playing beginning of game to the current update point of game and absolutely LOVED it. Will definitely be following up this game and eyeing updates. Love love love Marc and William, excited to see how far these characters will go. Amazing job Dev, I appreciate the option of choices as some fetishes I'm not into so happy to not be forced into skipping through them. Love it!
Thank you, glad to hear you liked the game.
And not too long to wait, I will post the new update next week, before the end of the month for my higher tiers patrons, and a week later for the public free version (so start of next month globally).