Dev Diary, December 8th, 2023 (Patreon)

Open post this time, due to the Promotion further down.

Another week of mostly scripting. I managed to output more than 4k lines of script and dialogue, so it's good progress.

Compared to episode 1, which was about 18k lines in total, I'm sure I'll surpass that by a whole lot.

Other than that, I rendered more scenes where needed and made cutouts of interactable objects in the free-roams. Started working on phone events. Prepared a scene gallery of lewd scenes in addition to improving the existing picture gallery.

I also decided to tie some strings together with another game you might know of.

Promotion

Lastly, I just thought I'd do a little promotion, although I never do them usually. Also, I was not asked to do this. I just feel it's very deserving.

• On Steam, the biggest game engine is Unreal, whose company is valued at around 15 billion dollars.
• The second biggest game engine is Unity, which is also valued at around 15 billion dollars.
• The third biggest game engine on Steam is Ren'Py, where the sole developer has a Patreon with around 400 members.

Ren'Py is an easy-to-use, and free game engine, to help make visual novels. Leap of Faith and U4iA are both bade with Ren'Py. So is another big title that has a release today. And a whole lot of other visual novels. Most of them would never have seen the light of day if it hadn't been for Ren'Py.

Although Ren'Py is built on Pygame, Ren'Py is developed and maintained by Tom Rothamel, who earlier this year celebrated 10 years as a developer - which I assume he meant 10 years as a full-time developer, as he started working on Ren'Py on the 30th of January, 2004.

With that in mind, he's been working on Ren'Py for two decades come next month. Without his work, and giving it away to anybody who wants to use it, you would probably not have been able to play most of these games.

If you think that is deserving of support, and like playing these games, head over to his Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/renpytom and show some love in appreciation for what he's done. And... you also get useful tips, tricks, and updates monthly, if you want to start tinkering in Ren'Py yourself.

Have a nice weekend, and stay safe out there.

// Drifty