For me, aesthetics play a huge role in VNs, so the artstyle would be the first dealbreaker. I'm honestly not much of a fan of the typical Otome game artstyle/character designs and often find them generic. On the other hand, once I stumble over a VN with a unique, strong art direction I'll instantly check it out.
What S_H_K said, people have reported being rebuked for posting pictures without ALT-text and not CW-ing uncommon things like eye-contact or food, for example. One person notably received angry messages for posting about cutting their finger on a sheet of paper without CW. The worst accounts were of POC talking about racism they experienced and being told to put it under CW.
To paraphrase my opinion from back then:
- Easier onboarding, and a familiar, easier UX
- customizable feeds you can subscribe to + starterpacks instantly give you full timelines and people to follow (and followers, if you're in many starter packs)
- better discoverability, and therefore higher engagement
- stacking moderation and excellent security features (e.g. detachable quote boosts, "the nuclear block")
- many users who tried Mastodon first had bad experiences with "HOA"-like behavior and over-enthusiastic mods
Seconding this! Honestly the aggressive anti-religious attitude that seems to be popular on Fedi and (and big subreddits as well) annoys me to no end, and it always has an air of wanting to feel superior about it.
Spirituality can be a good, helpful, thing that anyone should be allowed to practice. It doesn't help that people always seem to equate religion itself with big institutions or particularly bigoted sub-groups.
I don't know if this incoherent rant makes any sense, anyway you're valid and I support you!
I passively collect GC seals by running normal roulettes and rolling on all of the gear tokens to exchange them and turn the gear in at my GC through expert deliveries. You could unsync the highest level normal raid you can clear to collect tokens for that method?
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No, @[email protected] was correct, the post originally had a typo in it, which I fixed after I got corrected through an earlier comment, but the replies don't seem to federate properly 😅 Also yes, Taittsu seems to be an intentional pun on Twitter
Hi, welcome! I decided to create this as a "Ren'Py and visual novel development" community, so topics related to Ren'Py and vn-development in general are allowed. I didn't expect there to be enough engagement to justify a separate "VNDev" community in the beginning. I also have only used Ren'Py myself, so I couldn't offer support with e.g questions related to other engines. 😅
If there's actually enough interest in vn-dev with other engines, then I could make a general vn-dev community, I suppose? But thank you for your question, I might add a clarification to the rules.
[email protected] is slowly growing and currently at 71 subscribers 🎉 I've started promoting it a little bit on Mastodon and Bluesky as well
Don't mind me, just saving that link for later use 👀
- Tumblr - my first real main social media platform, mainly fandom stuff, used to post fanart there as well, I've been on that hellsite for half of my life now and will probably stay there until Automattic pulls the plug
- Mastodon - My main Twitter replacement, really good for fandom since it's easy to talk about spoilers with custom CWs
- Bluesky - Second Twitter replacement
- Lemmy - As reddit replacement with less lazy engagement bait posts (this is really a problem on reddit especially in game-(dev) subreddits
- Discord - for Gaming-buddies, fandom communities, and gamedev communities
The character is based on my self-made PNGtuber model. It looks kinda derpy if you zoom it, but it will do
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AI: The Somnium Files and the Zero Escape games are massively discounted (70% - 85%) until 4th November
(store.steampowered.com)
Mirage Noir is a detective VN focused on found family, inspired by games like Ace Attorney and Bustafellows.
Story (quoted from the Steam page):
Play as a detective, solve cases, and try to catch an elusive serial killer in this mystery visual novel focused on found family (inspired by games like Ace Attorney and Bustafellows)
When Yunie graduated from college, she believed she had her whole life ahead of her. Returning to her hometown with a shiny new dream job, it seemed like nothing could stand in her way.
However, two years later, not much has changed. She hasn't made any new friends, isn't allowed to investigate anything worthwhile, and feels like she's stuck in mud, moving in place.
So when an unexpected opportunity arises, she doesn't hesitate to take it. The case is a weird one, but it introduces her to an eccentric team of people she immediately connects with, and she decides that no matter what, she won't regret getting involved.
Even if it means crossing paths with a serial killer.
Full game coming in 2026! The demo covers the entirety of the prologue.
They'll also be running a Kickstarter from Oct 22 - Nov 21
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I think the game I mainly thought of when I wrote the comment was To Eat A God (which is more or less a yandere dating-sim) It's changed now but the game's original thumbnail was bright yellow and showed stylized art of one of the love interests and I was instantly like "Yoooo what's this? Looks sick". The dev is mainly an artist and this is their first vn but you can see that they went all out with the visuals.
Another I game I had this reaction to lately was The Phantom of The Black Rose revue, since it looks exactly like an 80s shojo manga a la Rose of Versailles, but it's Yuri so that probably doesnt count :/