This week I decided to focus on researching the technical side of creating a visual novel.  I read through the Ren’py tutorial on their website and tried out most of the basic commands to get a feel for what actually programming a visual novel will be like. For the most part, the commands are very self-explanatory and easy to use such as changing the background and characters as well as fading in and out.

The most useful commands for my visual novel seem to be the different types of choices because those are the essence of every visual novel. More specifically, the types where you turn a variable to true and choices that can only be selected if a certain requirement is fulfilled. Since I plan on having a resource that you must keep track of throughout the story I most likely will be using these two types of choices a lot.