Remember the story that I wrote in this post: What!? Another story? Well, I was toying around with the idea of making a visual novel for a while now, and suddenly it struck me: I should make that story into a visual novel as a test run, before I move on the make the real deal.
So I took the do-first-clean-up-later approach, and went to MorgueFile to look for the pictures I needed and started editing it, within a hour or so the images were done(title included). Deciding it was enough for a prologue, I dived into the story and converted it into a script, firing up the RenPy engine to combine everything together, well everything took longer than expected (Whole process took 5~6 hours) all the rewriting, placement of the pictures. Giving it a test run, it ran for less then 10min (6 hours work for a 10min read, LOL) to reach the end of the prologue.
To remind myself of what could be done if I tried, I decided to take a few screenshots:
I’m tipping my hat off to those successful Visual Novel makers, now I know how hard it is to make a Visual Novel.
Looks like it’s still a “long way home” for my visual novel, oh well… At least I started!
