u/Turbulent_Onion3767

I'm 19 years old, and I decided to make a visual novel in Unity instead of Renpy, even though it sounds strange.

The reason - experience.

I wanted to master Unity so I wouldn't limit myself to Renpy visual novels. But I also wanted to create a visual novel specifically, and I decided it was worth giving it a try. Unity allowed me to create good lighting, transitions, and other features that Renpy, as far as I know, doesn't have (like the ability to resize text in the panel, quickly rewind text, and control the flow of phrases with the mouse—left-click forward, right-click backward, and the mouse wheel to return instead to the last phrase read). The main difficulty was writing the entire game architecture, on which the game is built.

After all, everything is built into Renpy, whereas in Unity, you have to write all the systems yourself. Now almost the entire game architecture is ready—all that's left is to implement a save/load system.

I'm currently actively drawing art (by hand, digitally) and creating the game itself, rather than the eternal prototype it was for the first nine months.

Hand-drawn original sprites, made in digital by me

First look at 'The Creator's Drawings', my original visual novel that I'm creating in Unity. I'm making it alone, and I genuinely like how it's turning out. I've been developing this version of the game for two months, though before that there was a prototype that took more than half a year to create. Now the game has its own visual style and a written script for the beginning of the story. In short, development has only just moved past the very early stage. Right now I'm actively drawing art and assembling scenes in the engine.

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Первый взгляд на Рисунки Создателя - моя авторская визуальная новелла, которую я создаю на Юнити. Я делаю ее один и мне правда нравиться то, что получается. Эту версию игры я разрабатываю два месяца, однако до этого был прототип, который создавался более чем полгода. Сейчас у игры свой собственный визуальный стиль, и написанный сценарий начала истории. Короче - разработка только перешла ступень ранней стадии. Сейчас я активно рисую арт, и собираю сцены в движке.

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