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 :/

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.

We’ve had this exact conversation in this community two months ago already, in case you want to back read the comments from back then. Nothing significant has changed

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?

Hits save at the speed of light

No, @hitagi@ani.social 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.

!renpy@discuss.tchncs.de 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

Aww I hope you can get it running!

It vaguely follows the manga’s plot and covers about the same arcs as the first season of the anime, except that it’s turned the narrative into a reverse-harem and inserted fever-dream like filler arcs (like the protagonist dreaming up an entire beach-episode??) There were also a bunch of mini games, one of which had you literally stalking your love interest of choice.

I chose to go for a non-canon route for my only run so far, the love interest (Aidou Hanabusa) of which was originally obsessed with one of the canon love interests instead of the heroine. I failed to seduce him and he recruited me into the fanclub instead. I cried laughing when I got to the end.

On top of that the protagonist is just very… juvenile, which I really dislike, but all of the LIs adore her for her weird antics :/

It’s just…hilariously bad, but it has very high production value. It’s even fully voiced!

I’m not really familiar with the overall lemmy instance landscape, but there are general visual novel communities on lemmy.comfysnug.space and preserve.games, so maybe have a backup-community there?

As for the Icon, i cross-checked with otome subreddits and they either have katalina or the reddit-mascot with heart eyes 🤔

Hmmm i ruminated a lot on this one but I’d pick “Play your favorite Otome game for the first time again”, except not to play a “favorite” but to play the Vampire Knight otome game for DS again, which is an incredibly entertaining train wreck.

ah, Soshiro is the childhood friend and thinker type and Suzu is the sporty type with a strong physique! I reworded the post to hopefully make it clearer, sry^^ Here’s a screenshot with both of them:

thank you! 🥰 💜

Kinda late! But I’m at the start of Soshiro’s route in Jack Jeanne. He’s the complete opposite of Suzu, my first LI route, and an introverted and highly analytical actor who does tons of research on his roles to gain more understanding of them. He’s also the MC’s childhood friend and the only LI to know her secret from the get-go.

On top of that, he’s my first route where the LI sometimes plays Jeanne (female) roles, and it’s been really fascinating watching him learn how to act like a Jeanne.

Seconding 91 Days!

So happy that Yakuza Fiancé is getting picked up 😄 I love how messy the main pairing and especially the male lead is