Now we're one step closer to creating fun RPG games WITHIN a visual novel!

Man, I can't belive how underrated you are. Your videos are so well made and extreeeemly helpful. I assume it's because of the small renpy community, you're one of the only good ren'py creators, I would even go as far and call you THE best renpy tutor. I'm so thankful for your videos!!!

I cannot BELIEVE how perfect this tutorial is. I figured having combat elements in my visual novel was a pipe dream because of my n00b level skills but now I'm going to pursue it. Thank you!

Although I already know how to do this, its still so nice to see that you're covering it in barebones. Some people who're new to this might find it very challenging to pursue this kind of game mechanic but your explanation definitely paints a clear picture of how the logic works. Well done good sir!

RENPY HAS A 3D Thing NOW?!? HOLY IM BEHIND IM MOVING BACK YO REN PY

This, This is exactly what I always wondered about the potentials of Ren'py. This video just fried away all of my concerns about the limitaions of Ren'py and I finally got my decision to choice of which game making tools to use. I really appreciate you to make this video.

This is awesome! I watched lots of tutorials, but it's a struggle for me to understand coding, I can see people building blocks but never quite understand the principle behind it. This video finally made me understand all those tricky code names. I didn't see before but they are actually class variable changings. I'm really bad at coding, sometimes I can't even understand why I should code like this or that. So it's awesome to finally find a tutorial willing to take a noobie's hand. I would love to see your tutorials about inventory, and more stuff about basic coding!

Ohhhhh my God, I am SO happy about this video. I know Ren'py isn't really for making complex turn-based games, but I love seeing how far its functionality can stretch. I'm currently studying Python on its own, so I'm super excited about learning more about Python in relation to Ren'py! Thank you! 🙏 RIP to the canaries, lol.

There are probably too many words I wan't to say so I will limit myself to just: Thank you. Really, those tutorials, this whole channel is God-sent for people who want to work with RenPy. I started some time ago, creating my first game and basic Renpy stuff is very simple, after all you just write for most part. But things like night/day cycle or timers on choice are such a nice addition. Thank you again and wishing you all best for dedication to this niche but beatiful engine.

Somehow I've just found you despite messing around with renpy for 2 years. Awesome tutorial. It's always nice to see how other devs do things.

Thank you for posting this Vimis :) I really appreciate all your tutorials, they help me learn a lot!

In my RPG (which is being made in game maker) there’s a huge elements/effects system I’ve implemented. For starters, you have your basic element stuff which does what you expect them to do. Using spells can guarantee effects based on the element of its user. Then you have the weirder side of it which is the hardcode functions. If I want a certain enemy to have a constant damage multiplier against everyone, then they will get this hardcode functionality, which ignores all element checks. Then I check for if both the enemy and attacker are elemental, if the attacker is and the enemy isn’t, if the enemy is and the attacker isn’t, or if both aren’t elemental. That check gets run 4 separate times, each changing the damage value by a percentage. For case 1, (both elemental) damage is reduced by 5%, for case 2, damage is increased by 5%, for case 3, damage is reduced by 5%, and for the final case there is no change. This check gets run on the base elements of the attacker and the enemy, then on the weapon’s element and the enemy, then on the weapons element and the enemy’s armor. Also weapons with elements can stack onto effects during spells so if you have say fire on an electric elemental, you do “charge” as the effect. All of this is to say I put a lot of thought into my elements system because the whole premise of the game is elements. Everything gets taken into account. (Also magic defense will decrease damage taken significantly more than basic armor points. 1 magic point is 0.3 reduction and 1 armor point is 0.142856… reduction.)

The bird spoke: "I want Jiggle physics"🤣

Just discovered your channel recently and love your videos.

I’m new to game making and still learning Godot. But man being that GDScript is very similar to python I can now understand how to implement those things. Thank you so much!

Just found you today, not coded or written in Ren'Py for 2 years and your tutorials would been a godsend back then. There is one thing I looked at your videos and wondered if maybe you could potentially take time with and that is Layered Images. I remember having a really tough time figuring out how that works. It is also supposed to be useful for individual animations such as "eyes" or etc. I think you could really help people figure that one out with how well you explain and showcase stuff!

Damn, I just found your channel today and I'm loving it! Can't wait for the inventory video and I would love to see more parts on this fighting system to see just how complex it could get (rip canaries)

Renpy has classes? Good to know. As someone more used to unity but likely to make visual novels in the future it will come in handy.

Maybe this isn't a big deal now, but remember, Twice Devil Studios Team watched your videos to improve ours visual novels level, thank you so much for your videos and keep working on this, you have a bright future 💯💭

Best content creator Game dev/Visual novel/ RenPy related 🙏❤️ please keep the wonderful job. Hope your Patreon starts growing big!

I thoroughly enjoyed this, thanks. I'm currently building a card-style combat system from scratch and I could really use the novice version of this video.

The only tutorial i was looking for! you made soooo much SUPER HELPFUL renpy tutorial ngl! i love how you explain the code aswell, thank you so much !

Great video! On minor nitpick is at 5:46 is that a d20 rolling 19-20 is a 10% chance, not a 20% one. So your skeleton really has a 10% chance of wild attack, 10% chance of heal and an 80% of normal attack. By the way, I'm really happy to find this channel. I've been playing D&D for years and wanted to try making Visual Novels inspired by Tabletop RPGs so finding your videos is really helpful, especially this one about implementing a combat system.

im so happy that i started working with basics in renpy so now i know that it's actually easy stuff

I’d be very interested in an in-depth Pokemon combat tutorial on RenPy

Great Tutorial thanks! I was able to make a simple turn based battle mini game and had it work how I wanted thanks to your guide + a bit of experimenting on my part

This was super helpful and I'm hyped about the next batch of episodes! Also on a slightly unrelated note, if anyone in these comments wants to make a huge rpg game, Ren'py might not be the best engine for that...you're welcome to try, though

Just Subbed mate. Thank you very much for the love into RenPy!

14:30: That class is still procedural. Just using classes doesn't change code from being procedural or object-oriented. In order to make that, you need to make use of methods, multipluralism (different classes that can be used the same way) and possibly concrete inheritance (instead of just interfaces)

とても参考になりました。ありがとうございます。That was really helpful. Thanks a lot!😀

Damnit... the birb intro bit got me... Laughed My Dumb Cloaca Off.

$ explosion = 0 $ bird = explode If bird == explode: $ explosion += 1

I will watch this video 6000 times so it gets to 10k tomorrow aaaaaaa

I am looking forward to the inventory video!

It's like the insult fights from Monkey Island all over again!

Hi! First of all: THANK YOU. This series has been a life saver for me. Little question/request, though: I DO get a LOT lost at the process around 2:15 where you talk about layers and camera angles/depth, and the video where you tackle how to use the Action Editor doesn't really cover how to manage the 3D enviroment (or even how to access it, since it's disabled by default). Would it even be possible to have a video of you explaining HOW do you actually manage this? It's crazy hard to fiddle around with your code and not to mess everything up with any slight adjustment. And, of course: THANKS AGAIN. You're great.

YEEEEEEEAH BABY THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!!!!!!

I have so much trouble with this! Thank you so much for the vid! It means a ton.

you deserve a like and sub for that thumbnail alone haha love it!

Ah yes, a canary of culture.

F for all the lost birdies out there.

Pretty neat! I might end up using a system like this in my games. Also poor birds lol

This… satisfies me

Thank you, the topic is important and the explanation is very simple

Amaziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!!!! OMG!

dang, thank you so much man! you escapes me from my suffering :,D.

How about fight scene with jiggle physics?

that bird speak for me Ps: thanks for the great video

So when it comes to classes, do you just create them all within the script and set conditions that trigger them in the script as well. Still new to RenPy and having everything on "one page" is just crazy. Must be a nightmare to organize.

Great video as always

Really cool and helpful tutorial, I finally made my battle system good enough. I have only one question: WHAT IS THIS SUPER CONVENIENT 3D STAGE EDITOR? Is it something built-in?

Thanks for the tutorial, can you give some information about multi-language support sometime?

I've been working on a renpy game for 2 years now (no prior knowledge) and this video is the FIRST I'm seeing about 3d renpy stuff, do you have video / referral for that type of stuff? it looks SO COOL

Thank yooou- this is so helpful! ps: do you think you can cover quick time events in an action scene in the future?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the OOP solution presented in this video break with rollback? I was using it as a reference for a game jam project I'm working on, and it seemed like if I made a call to damage a character the changed hit points would persist beyond rollback (and beyond the point of saving and loading, until I closed and re-opened the game), meaning I could damage a character repeatedly just by going back and forth between two lines. Regardless, loved the video! I've been watching your videos for a while and it's been very helpful and entertaining as a ren'py newbie.

Excellent video as always

Commenting for the algorithm

Thanks! You’re saving my life (slight exaggeration but I am ready to die if I don’t chase my dream, quit my day job)

Really good stuff, keep it up :)

quick question about the gameplay shown at 2:45, how do you make it move smoothly between two moving camera shots? i have a camera transform that's constantly moving, and im trying to get a smooth move from that to another camera angle, but it's scuffed every time.

Awesome stuff! Thanks a lot.

Great video Friend!

Thank you so much for all the effort you put in your tutorials! I have a question, do you know if you can add game borders in Ren'py? Like the PC-98 ones?

I have two questions for you. 1) If I want to make a space game in renpy, how can I do it? 2) Can we transfer the python output of a game we made in Microsoft Makecode to renpy?

Awhile ago I saw a snippet of a Renpy example you had I think of the character able to move in a side scroller, and a tutorial was going to be made for that (I think). Do you know which video this could be of yours? It wasn’t released yet at the time I think. Unless the Renpy action editor will discuss this. Or this battle one does xD I mostly just wanted to see how to walk around in the vn and try it out!

Is it possible to develop type racing using renpy?

Just a quiestion, all of that code is made on separated scripts, or can be together in one?

I've been thinking about turning a project of mine into a visual/kinetic novel but I'm having trouble figuring out what sort of combat system I want to include. ATM I know I don't want to include a rpg like gear and leveling system since they seem like a hassle and I do want to include comic panel scenes with the combat system. Actually, as I'm typing this, I just thought that I could have the player select a panel to react and attack the enemy.

Question Is it possible to add a formula modifier that would rely on a number based on your choices doing the story? Each choose would have a point value something like this Choice a -2 Choice b -1 Choice c 0 Choice d +1 Choice e +2

I know this is an old vid, but I tried to follow through this on an exercise and ran into something I didn't know how to find the answer to. When you've designed your fighter/combatant/character, whatever- Class. You use it to streamline stats and everything. But *how* do you make it so that for your battle loop, you can call which object/instance of that class as you need it? Like in the middle of the video you programmed that block of text of "if enemy_element == etc" then "$ enemy_(etc)_hp -= value" That's basically like, coding a variable for each enemy in your class. But is it possible to make like, a variable be "target" or something- so that you wouldn't have to code the numerous variables for each enemy? I tried to do like, ren'py simplified code $ target = "ghoul", and then $ [target].hp -= damage. But you can't combine ren'py streamlining with python code. Anyway! This video was great, really inspiring and led to lots of googling and experimenting. :D

nice tut

Hi! I downloaded the sample code but had hard time trying to make it work. Could you, by any chance, help with that? I'm not a good programmer so I can't really build on top of this, but as I have it right now, it doesn't work at all. The game refuses to launch even

Do what the birb says.

Is this possible to create minecraft in renpy?

If I want to add a move like regeneration for my character to heal up how should I do it? I've been trying for days

This is SO useful!!Thank you very much!!! PS: Do you think it'd be possible to create a SRPG (Ala Fire Emblem/Final Fantasy Tactics) engine using Ren'py?

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i want to make a pokemon esque vn, and this video is perfect for it, i just wanna know how to make a party system like pokemon? where you can switch out each character that has its own moves and stats and also for the opposing team to make different moves? do i just call the dice roll screen for the enemy and make the percentages and stuff?

Thanks for the tips definetly using this for Voltitan Vol.2's update.

Could you create a tutorial on how to make a navigation screen?

Question, You talk about adding classes, I see that part in the code you link, but how do you then add that into the RPG mechanics code. What code is needed so those variables translate into stats??

I'm that canary!

I get an error saying "name 'player_max_hp' is not defined", can someone please help?

This is cool, but how do we throw in classes and skills?

here after unity last announcement lol

Hope there are section where the last part are more in depth. Since I don't like the look of earlier part code, like, ew.

Could there be a healing system?

Ok but how do I recreate Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land? Is Ren'Py beter or RPG Maker?

thank you! Do you know how to put in app purchase consumables with renpy?

i typed everything exactly as you did but still getting errors am i missing something?

Hi, I'm wondering how to add an intro when entering the game in renpy. I would be very happy if you could help me. 👑

I have a request! Can you do an indepth tutorial about how saving works and how we can use it in code etc? Like how we can save at certain points for story purposes etc I looked at the documentation but its still very complicated for me & at times not well explained there so i think i'd be a great topic

but the real question is how to make the overworld/worldmap system

the ending 🤣🤣🤣

Hey Vimis! Do you have any idea about make a game with Live2D animated characters since Ren'Py support that feature? Like set up some basic stuff to use it properly (like a turn on/off button for animations and other things).

Hello! I was wondering if you could make a video on how to shake a sprite or background! Thanks.

Is the inventory system still planned to come out?

Wow

W T F I was actually searching for something like that

RENPY HAS 3D???? SINCE WHEN????