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I've been writing an actual visual novel for a few years, so I'm going to approach this from a game development perspective as much as a writing perspective. To help me with this problem, I borrow...
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#4: Attribution notice removed
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2019-12-12T21:42:32Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T09:22:32Z (almost 5 years ago)
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I've been writing an actual visual novel for a few years, so I'm going to approach this from a game development perspective as much as a writing perspective. To help me with this problem, I borrowed a technique from the VN _Katawa Shoujo_. The images for the character sprites are all named using a pattern something like `name_outfit_pose_expression`, with `outfit` being omitted if they're wearing their school uniform. So what I've started doing is, whenever a character's pose and/or facial expression would change, I insert a line of pseudocode with a fake file name, telling me what the new pose/expression would be. Something like: `Boy: Sounds like someone's angry.` `[show "girl_foldarms_rolleyes"]` `Girl: Noooooo! How could you tell?` This also helps you keep track of how many sprites you need for each character when it's time to do the artwork. If a search for `show 'girl_` returns 400 results, you'll need to do a rethink of whether you actually _need_ that many sprites, because that's a lot of work for the art department.
#1: Imported from external source
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2018-07-13T13:35:02Z (over 6 years ago)
Original score: 3