"In Search of Dustin" Version 0.1 Release
If you're just joining me now, you can read more about Dustin in the blog entries below this one.
If you're here for PORN, go to my entries here or here to download the clips. You pervs.
So, I've decided to release "In Search of Dustin" Version 0.1. I'm releasing it not because its good or even close to being finished, but because I've decided to stop developing the game with Blade Engine. I've found a far better engine called "Ren Py". And its better in almost every way possible.
Things to keep in mind when you're playing:
- The game is incomplete, so some selections will end up nowhere.
- The selection menu is bugged.
- If you want to skip the movies, right click the screen.
Edit: Crap, I just noticed a music file playing where its not supposed to be. Oh well.
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My rant about why I'm abandoning Blade Engine
The first reason up to bat is that I've just about had enough of Blade Engine's bugs. When you play my game, you will likely notice the most annoying one: the gibberished selection options. Blade Engine says its working to fix the problem, and I actually believe they will. They're customer service seems fairly good. While there's no guarantee than I won't find bugs in Ren Py, the likelihood is much less as Ren Py's been used to develop hundreds of games already (amateur and professional) while Blade is completely new product.
Second, Unlike Blade, Ren Py is completely free. No annoying company logos and window bars.
Third, I can way more with Ren Py than I could ever do with Blade. With Ren Py, I can make images spin on the screen. You will be able to click on different locations on a map. You can get points for your actions. I can even make snowflakes fall from the sky. The sky is literally the limit.
Finally, and this is the clincher: Blade advertise itself as the most user-friendly Visual Novel creator. Not so. I've just tried RP, and the tabs and script program is way better than the increasingly cumbersome notepad documents I have to generate.
So basically, its Ren Py: 4, Blade Engine: 0.
posted by Kurb @ 12:15 PM
6 comments
6 Comments:
PyTom (creator of Ren'Py) here, with just a couple of corrections. Ren'Py has been used to create dozens (31+) of games, not hundreds. None have been professional, although we have sold a few at cons.
Anyway, feel free to join us at the Lemma Soft forums: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/
Waoh. How did you get here? I suspect it must have been via the Blade Engine forum, though I only posted there a few hours ago.
Hey I have a question about Gaydar, since I'm not that great with computers and stuff. You said to "play it by unzipping the file and clicking on the 'Gaydar' icon." How do I unzip it? I tried clicking on the Gaydar icon and pressing Extract All, hoping it means the same thing, but I get the error that d3dx9_30.dll isn't found. Do you have any ideas?
Hmm. Do you have WinZip? If you do, go to this link and download your missing d#dx9_30.dll file and unzip it.
http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?d3dx9_30
Oh, mikey found it here, and PMed me about it. I like to post on the blogs of new Ren'Py developers, encouraging them to join the community.
Dude!
Upload the circlejerkboys - mauricio and vinnie stuff!
PLEASE?
thanks :)
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