Ren'Py is a free, 2D, and cross-platform engine that helps you make story-based games including visual novels and simulation games. It uses a scripting language based on Python.
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💜Chronotopia has been released for a week now,
I hope you’ve been enjoying the story so far!💜
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Surprise! I thought I wouldn’t leave you without one last spotlight. As explained previously: in Chronotopia’s framing device, you incarnate a lost soul who visits Kionna’s world (the fairytales world) in the hope of finding memories of their past life. That’s where you, as a player, have to step in!
If you manage to find all 4 memory fragments, you get a bonus scene~
There are 4 memory fragments scattered through Chronotopia’s story. One is hidden in a background, one in an event CG, one is near a sprite, and one is on another layer entirely. Of course, there is a logic behind that: Each memory fragment is tied to an object or an idea that turns out to be important in the soul’s past life. If you find a memory fragment, you unlock its corresponding flashback at the end of the game, when you return to purgatory.
And each flashback will reward you with a special illustration! For these, I was looking for a completely different atmosphere and fell in love with CinnamonDevil’s work. Since she’s mostly a traditional artist, her style here reminds me a lot of the engravings Gustave Doré made to illustrate the 1864 edition of Perrault’s tales. Very literature nerd of me, I know, but I think it’s a perfect fit and I hope you like the result as much as me~
I'm revealing this one in particular because it’s the earliest/easiest to unlock
Depending on how many memory fragments you managed to discover, the lost soul will meet a different fate. Naturally, the goal is to get all 4 to piece their backstory together. I thought this “Where is Waldo?” kind of gameplay would be a fun side activity for people who like to complete absolutely everything. That way you have something to do even on your way to a 2nd or 3rd ending!
I unfortunately can't show you more of CinnamonDevil’s illustrations but here's a spoiler-free sneak peek
Do you like the purgatory illustrations? Did you manage to collect them all? If not, don’t worry too much. I just wrote a guide to help you find them more easily and another specific to memory fragments and elemental spirits is already on the way!
Chronotopia: Second Skin is now out!
Chronotopia: Second SkinAfter so many years, so much waiting, Chronotopia: Second Skin is now officially released on Steam and itchio!
![[Spotlight] The 'Purgatory'](https://media.indiedb.com/cache/images/articles/1/321/320036/crop_120x90/Cocoon_CG.jpg)
[Spotlight] The 'Purgatory'
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Hey, can someone help me with the Ren'Py engine? It's just that everytime I type new code into the script.rpy, I get an error saying "Tab characters are not allowed in Ren'py scripts." Can someone help me?
Could you show me the code? If it's code that's trying to define an item like "image nblnk = im.Scale("nblnk.png", 320, 575)", that HUGE space you see right there after "image nblnk" is a tab space (EDIT: Okay, so indiedb takes out the space, but the space is as big as when you hit tab in the script editor). Usually it changes tabs into spaces but when defining something if you use Tab it marks it as an error. If it's not that that's the issue, show me a bit of the code and I can work on it for ya.
Make sure every line of code defining something only has one space between each variable, like so:
"variable nickname = "realname.filetype", where variable is the type of file or action, such as image, play music, play sound, or with (EDIT: with is used in other places, NOT with an "=" sign. My bad. the "play music" or "play sound" however are almost like that, just without the "=" sign). If you don't know what those are, the engine itself when downloaded has a tutorial game that explains pretty much everything (except the more complex errors.) This is just an add-on to what I said above, if it still doesn't fix it, I'll gladly check your code.
If this place is inappropriate to say this, please forgive me and delete the comment. If not, I would be very happy if it actually helps: I am planning on releasing a couple of longer stories as visual novels.. games, with this engine. I am a writer mainly, and not the best artist. I would love if, if someone is an artist or has interest and experience in the creation of artwork, would be interested in working with me, they could contact me via PM.
Again, I apologize if this is not the correct place to post this, but on the forums things like that are lost within hours with no results so I figured I would try my luck here.
Thanks in advance. I love this engine :)
I wouldnt mind helping with the artwork! You can reach me at Lucr3tcia.deviant art.com and we can talk about it xD
ren'py engine. Whoever has played a game similar to this engine, please send me a message. It sounds very familiar.
(dark humor laugh)
its a bit saddening to see many ren'py games releasing with a price up to $20, even when the arts, story, and or "gameplay" is not that good.
-not to be compared, look at Katawa Shoujo being one of the greatest, yet totally free
Yes.
how download engines sorry im new cant see download :L
Go to Renpy.org and look at "How do I get Ren'Py?"