Visual Novel Development

Really love this quote:

"I think the most important thing is to figure out exactly what ideas really interest you," Tony said. "Figure out exactly what story you want to tell. People can tell when a project really comes from the heart, and they love that. At the end of the day, art is about connection. It’s about communicating with other people. So you have to know what you want to communicate.

Also there's some nice advice on writing horror in there!

[Guide] Free VS Commercial Visual Novel Development by Arimia

Read it on Arimia's blog

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Sign-ups for NaNoRenO are open! [March 1st - April 2nd]

It's a yearly month long visual novel game jam inspired by NaNoWriMo!

Sign up here

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The Make Visual Novel Assets! Jam has concluded! (voting ongoing)

There are over 100 submissions, including backgrounds, sprites, GUI packs, music, plugins and tutorials. All assets are required to be free until March 1st so check them out soon!

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New VNDev Community!

c/VNDev is a new Lemmy community centred around general VNDev discussions and sharing progress updates on your projects. It's supposed to be a federated alternative of sorts to r/vndevs.

Users from the microblog side (Mastodon, Misskey, etc.) are encouraged to participate as well by tagging the community in their posts! (in fact, please do!! It's free additional reach! Here's a guide)

What kind of discussions would you like to see here? Feel free to offer suggestions.

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Signups for the Otome Game Jam 2025 are open now!

The game jam will run from May 1st 2025 until July 1st 2025.

Check it out here

(Also there's a brand-new VNDev Lemmy community!)

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