Ren'Py


Looking back through the blog, I played with Ren'Py and Twine as visual novel generation tools. I also know that I was playing with them about 3 years ago to generate the first interation of the Familiar character generation tool.

I've been looking on old hard drives for the working files to see how I built them from the ground up, and what I could do different this time. I'm not sure where those working files are, but have found compiled complete versions of the software, which are glitchy. They definitely need rebuilding. In the time since then, Ren'Py has also seen a number of updates. 

The core idea for Familiar is that characters are made using a five card tarot spread


Each card provides an attribute bonus, and a range of 3 potential abilities. If a character has the same ability on two cards, it stops being a potential ability, and becomes an actual ability. If they gain the same ability three or four times, they don't get improved versions of the ability but instead gain freebie points that miht be used to purchase other startig abilities. That means I basically need to create a way for the Ren'Py framework to lay out a Tarot Spread, generate the relevant meanings and correspondences, and show a player how they can develop their characters from this. 

That's my current plan anyway.



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