For my thesis, I will be making a visual novel with two branches. There are many things I need to do in order to gain the skills and knowledge necessary for this project.

The first thing is to play more visual novels and take notes. Although I have played various ones including Rewrite and Doki Doki Literature Club, I have not played through a visual novel within the last year at all. Doing research on the feel and types of choices in Visual Novels would help me to create a better final project. Looking at how they effectively use art to tell the story would help, and especially because I have not had experience writing a story with multiple branches and endings.

The next step would be to learn more about Ren’py and about Python. Although Ren’py seems easy enough to use even without much knowledge of Python, knowing how to effectively use Python would help me in not only this project but also in other programming endeavors as it is currently a popular language. Also it would be good to look into how to create backgrounds and also how to color and clean up paper drawings digitally.