It's a lot of work, but hand drawn sprites just look better on hand drawn backgrounds. Backgrounds: While most people won't care if you just take real pictures and use a watercolor filter to save money on backgrounds, they are still important.Visual novels walk the border between a game and a story, from kinetic novels with no interactivity to ones with complex branching plots or detailed minigames. Presentation is important, after all.Īnother aspect you need to consider is how game-y you want your VN to be. Text and dialogue are undeniably the most important aspects of a Visual Novel, but you cannot neglect the visual or even audio aspects of them. Alternatively, there are those that are like interactive manga such as Quartett. While many can undeniably be described as that, others like Muv-Luv Alternative have Visual Effects of Awesome so prominent the action scenes are akin to movies. So visual novels are just electronic books with fancy anime pictures and music, right? Not exactly. You can also use Episode if you have a mobile device and want an easily understood coding system and/or pre-made character models that are customize-able with and include many animations.
It's easily accessible even to someone with almost no coding experience, and comes with numerous helpful tutorials to get you started.
While it's certainly possible to handle all this stuff yourself from scratch, there is a wonderful open source Visual Novel engine known as Ren'Py. The first place to start is the engine for the Visual Novel itself.
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