A huge chunk of the research I did for the visual novel demo I had decided I wanted to make came from my SSP 2 Outcome from second year, where I had made a game demo for a seperate visual novel. You can find the game and download it from here.
The game followed my characters Varuna (based on the Hindu deity of the ocean, with a strong tie to asuras) and Yama (Based on Yama, the Hindu God of the dead). I used ren’py to code the game and made all the visual assets myself. I really enjoyed the interactive aspect of visual novels, and so wanted to translate more of my work into that medium.
Here are some of the visuals from Grapefruit, the dating sim visual novel I made last year. (This is relevant I promise, i built a lot more on a lot of the research i did for that project and also was able to identify a lot of things to improve on as a result of going back to study it)
This was a pretty strong starting point, as it also helped me start on a very specific area of research as a result, since I’d done a lot of base research on visual novels in the previous project.
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