Four games I've worked on 🎐

*Own projects*
Reanimation Scheme — my first commercial otome vn
Emberfate — my experimental MMORPG/chatsim vn

*Client Projects*
Royal Alchemist — one of my 1st commissions. I wrote Serin's route~
Killer Chat — I wrote the chatsim system for the project in 2 weeks!

Hopping on the trend for this in case anyone wants to get to know the dev behind my games better 👉👈

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The replace_old_items function basically maps the item object from the old class to the corresponding new class object -> removes the old object -> adds the new object

Obv there's some extra work I had to do behind the scenes to link the old item to the new item, but this is the logic behind it

I use this frequently in my game Emberfate.

Example: for the upcoming update & DLC, I ended up rewriting the Inven & Mail system with new classes.

But I don't want players loading old saves to end up with a broken inventory or mail! So I use after_load to "migrate" old inven items / mail over

Anyway, this one tip changed my life.

An example from my options.rpy that controls what folder of files are included when building the distribution and what aren't, based on what I set the INCLUDED_CONTENT and INCLUDE_VA variables to be.

If you don't want to keep pressing Shift + O to open up console to read what it says, you can change your Preferences in the Ren'Py launcher so that it prints to a Command Prompt window instead that's open alongside your game for convenience

**Might not work on Mac, I've only tried on Windows

VS Code has some extensions that shows your entire list of #TODO comments, so you can easily check all at a glance pre-release to make sure you're not forgetting anything

If you're using Ren'Py, there's also a place to look at all #TODOs in a project too in the Launcher:
Navigate Script > TODOs

2. Use #TODO comments in your script files to mark places to come back to later so you don't forget!

In VS Code, there's extensions to color/highlight comments w/ specific phrases so they stand out even more. So for example, mine are green like this and a lot harder to miss when I'm scrolling

I've been seeing some fellow VN devs share their experiences and tips here on Bsky lately, so I thought I'd join in and share some of mine too 🥺

Can't guarantee they'd be useful, but here we go.

⚠️ These come from the POV of a director, writer & Ren'Py programmer who knows nothing about art!

✨show off your visual novel in 4 screenshots!✨

Reanimation Scheme is a magic fantasy #otome visual novel, where you play as a burned out necromancer investigating the mystery of spirits becoming unsummonable overnight — and fall in love along the way! 💖

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Hi Bluesky!
I'm Windchimes, an otome/romance visual novel dev.

Projects:
🪄 Reanimation Scheme — otome VN with a necromancer heroine investigating the mystery of unsummonable spirits
Wishlist on Steam: bit.ly/rs-steam

🎮Emberfate — chatsim x MMORPG-sim romance VN, where you chat w/ & date guildies