Visual Novel

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A visual novel can be seen as a combination of a novel and a computer game: they're computer games with a large text based storyline and only little interaction of the player. A typical visual novel consists of text over an anime-style background image and is accompanied by background music. Throughout the game, the player usually has to answer a few questions which will have an effect on the story, thus playing a visual novel a second time while giving other answers may result in an entirely different plot. (From VNDB)

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Playing Visual Novels on Linux (lemmy.comfysnug.space)

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What steps, if any, do you guys take on the linux distribution of your choice to play visual novels?

I, personally, set the following in my .bashrc

alias vn='env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 wine start '

so I can just type vn gameExecutable.exe and usually just have the game work.

For the games I've had for a while, I have .desktop entries in my $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications directory with more specific commands as needed.

If you guys have any other tricks up your sleeves, please feel free to share them here.

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[–] INeedMana 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In general it's a good idea to have separate prefix for each game. You can script it, but Lutris will do it for you and you can modify the script, if you need.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

if im being honest i don't really bother unless it's actually needed.