The "reassemble" mini-game tutorial has now been completed and uploaded to my channel! 😁 It's a quite short video this time as the script is not that big.
In this post you can download the finished script/project if you are in the "Supporter" tier or higher. The attachment is at the bottom.
If you're i...
2023-03-03 17:52:58 +0000 UTC View PostI have finally finished the new inventory script which uses a context menu for interactions with items! 😁
Watch the video above to learn how to use it, and download the example project containing the inventory.rpy file at the bottom of this post.
The example project and the tutorial video contains a lot of useful information on how to setup a game using this inventory. In addition to the video tu...
2023-02-27 14:33:37 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the things that can be challenging sometimes in Ren'Py is when you want to show a character dialogue or narration above a screen. In the inventory tutorial I did a while back now, we did some workarounds for it so we could have both the inventory, environment and the dialogue screen showing at the same time.
I thought I'd also show some simple examples of how you could have a scene in your visual novel, which is a screen with clickable items, as well as some dial...
2023-02-01 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostExcept working on ideas and scripts for tutorials, I've also been working on a new and arguably improved inventory script that will include some functionality that has been requested before! I thought I'd let my dear patrons and followers in on what it looks like so far and how it works! 😁
This inventory script will be available to patrons only (Supporter tier or higher), and will NOT be a drag & drop this time. To combi...
2023-01-31 14:29:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe sliding puzzle mini-game tutorial is finished, and you can download the script here!
The sliding puzzle tutorial has finally been finished, and those of you in the Supporter tier or higher can download the script in this post below.
For those in the Voting tier or higher can also download the script containing 3 extra block f...
2023-01-27 08:58:41 +0000 UTC View Post
2023 has arrived and I'm getting back into making more tutorials for the channel. 😁🎉
The next and first tutorial of the year is going to be a fun sliding puzzle mini-game! This mini-game is going to be a little different from the others in terms of requiring you, as the visual novel developer, to make different puzzle formations that can be solved by the player. ...
2023-01-09 14:51:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The timing tutorial is completed and uploaded to Youtube! If you want to know more about it, you can read my post about it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/timing-tutorial-75666457
For those of you in the Supporter tier or higher can download the script below!
Enjoy!...
2022-12-08 14:49:35 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the planned tutorials for the channel was a requested timing mini-game where the goal is to unlock a chest or something else, by getting the timing correct.
In this case, we have a chest and a red bar together with a green zone within and a slider. The slider moves from side to side and needs to be in the green zone when the user presses on a key on the keyboard or clicks with the...
2022-12-08 14:45:47 +0000 UTC View PostLook at that, the end of the year is already approaching. Felt like it was only April yesterday. 🤷♀️😊 The channel is almost at 900 subscribers now too.
There's one more planned tutorial due for the channel according to the poll I did back in July. That's the timing puzzle tutorial where the aim is to hit a key on the keyboard at the right time to unlock something like a chest. (You can 2022-11-17 17:23:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Check the script collections to find which scripts are available in which tier: https://www.patreon.com/ess_renpy_tutorials/collections
Supporter tier has script downloads as you see them in tutorials, as well as other Supporter tier scripts.
Hey everyone! Hope you're doing good. 😁👋⭐
The simon says tutorial is now completed with 6 parts in total. Hope you all have enjoyed it and find it useful!
You can watch the last part if you haven't already by following this link, the playlist 2022-10-28 19:04:16 +0000 UTC View Post
The next upcoming tutorial for the channel is going to be a Simon Says type of mini-game, where you have four colored buttons that are going to light up in a specific pattern. Your goal, as the player, is to repeat the pattern as shown by pressing on the buttons in the correct order.
It will have three different difficulty levels which decides how long the pattern will be. This...
2022-09-08 11:44:37 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Hope you're staying healthy and well in the world.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm going to be creating some goals here on Patreon, and I'll be starting off with one to see how it goes. More patreons have already started to join and I'm very glad and appreciative to see it! Thank you for joining and welcome. 😊🎈✨
The first goal is a 100 Patreon goal, and I have decided to release a word-seek script I have been working on when it gets reached.
In...
2022-08-27 18:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
I have been feeling well enough now to record more footage, so I finished up the last part of the character customization tutorial and it is now published, so do check it out! 😁
Playlist link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pNWr...
2022-08-26 09:48:43 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
I hope you're doing well and staying healthy!
I haven't been doing too good to be honest. For the last week, I've been quite sick with the flu. I'm getting better but am not well enough just yet to record more footage and it sucks. I had just gotten started with the character customization tutorial and was really excited to get it out to all of you, and then this happened.
Not to worry though, I am definitely going to work on it as soon as I get well en...
2022-08-21 18:06:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! Hope you're doing well as you're reading this. ⭐😊👍
After a week-long poll on my Patreon for those in the voting-tier, the final results have now come in! Thank you to those who participated!
2 out of 4 patreons chose the character customization tutorial to come up first on the channel. There were three to choose from, so the other two are coming up next on the channel after the character customization one.
The tutorial will look like the .gif above wh...
2022-08-03 13:10:53 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Just want to let you all know I'm working on updating all of the scripts of the tutorials to work with Ren'Py version 8.0.
As you may or may not know, this new version is using Python 3 instead of 2. With that, somethings has changed in many of my tutorials which has to be updated for their code to work correctly. You may see some weird hiccups as a result when you run the scripts.
But no worries, I'm going through each of them and update them as necessary. M...
2022-07-18 09:52:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone, hope you're doing well!
The last part of the tutorial series was uploaded today and as such the series has now been completed. I hope those of you who have followed it have enjoyed it!
For those of you who are patreons in the tier Supporter or higher can download the finished script for the tutorial in this post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/68773000.
If you haven't already, cons...
2022-07-07 10:29:00 +0000 UTC View Post
For those of you who are patreons in the tier Supporter or higher can now download the finished script for the safe combination tutorial series in this post at the bottom!
Hope you liked the series, and thank you for your continuous support, it's really helpful! 😁👍
v.1.0.1: I im...
2022-07-07 10:24:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello dear Patreons! Hope you're doing well. ⭐
I thought I'd make an example script for those of you in the Supporter tier or higher showing one way you can animate a characters face (eyes and mouth) in Ren'Py. There's no tutorial for this, only the script with some comments explaining some parts of the code.
Thought some of you may like to play around with it and maybe even want to use it in your own projects, modified to fit your needs. Can of...
2022-06-30 11:37:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, hope you're doing well! 😊
For the upcoming tutorial, I'm working on a safe unlocking puzzle! There's no scores/points involved, as the only goal is to already know the correct combination and then use the dial on the safe to rotate it to the correct numbers. Once you've got it open, the contents inside will be revealed!
There's an indicator that will show if you got the combination right or wrong after you have entered all the required numbers, in this case 4 numbe...
2022-06-09 07:56:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week the last part of the shooting gallery mini-game was published on my channel!
It consists of 5 parts, and the last one got over 50 minutes long where we implemented the countdown timer, score text, a final score screen and a target pointer cursor!
As usual I made a playlist for the ser...
2022-06-06 07:35:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The shooting gallery tutorial is now completed! Part 5, the last video which happens to be 50 minutes and 15 seconds long has just been uploaded. Do check out the video if you haven't already! ;)
For those of you who want to download the competed script for this tutorial series, and are supporters in the tier "Supporter" or higher, can do so in this post!
In this post for patreons in the Supporter tier or higher, I'll be showing some "behind the scenes" photos of the making of the artwork for the shooting gallery tutorial and talk a bit about it.
First of all, I use Clip Studio Paint EX for my artwork. It is my all-time-favourite program for illustrating in. It has so many good features that I use all the time such as nice line-art brushes, decorative brushes (for adding patterns, plants, ribbons, all kinds of things...
2022-04-23 09:22:31 +0000 UTC View Post
The next tutorial to be added to my channel for visual novels made with Ren'Py will be a shooting gallery mini-game!
If you haven't heard of the game before, a shooting gallery is a classic game you can find sometimes at carnivals/festivals where you have a bunch of targets, often in the shapes of ducks, and your goal is to shoot them with a cork gun. There's different variations of the game, and nowadays they're usually played with laser guns. Once you've hit a target you get points an...
2022-04-15 15:58:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Important notice! This script is no longer updated to work with newer versions of Ren'Py. It does still work with Ren'Py 8.1.1 though. Over time as Ren'Py has changed, the script lost some functionality where saving and loading things within the script and possibly other things no longer work well. It was not feasible to keep updating it at this point as the code would have needed a large ov...
2022-03-23 17:44:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a few in-progress photos of the artwork I've been working on for the upcoming drag and drop inventory tutorial for Ren'Py.
It's planned on having a drag and drop combination functionality between certain items inside the inventory as well as allowing the player to drag an object from the inventory out into the environment/scene to interact with objects in different ways.
Will keep it simple for the tutorial, so there will only be a few objects to interact with in the ...
2022-01-31 09:37:17 +0000 UTC View Post
A complete narrated video-tutorial series of how to create a SameGame mini-game is available on my Youtube channel now! It is made with Ren'Py's own scripting language together with Python code. It consists of 11 parts where we implement:
A grid of icons/objects that can be interacted with to remove a group of matches.
Grid/Icon shuffling functionality where t...
2022-01-31 08:24:47 +0000 UTC View Post