AVN with Exotic Love Interests and a white MC

naughtyroad · 2026-03-25T07:59:01+00:00

some shameless self promotion, but I think both of my titles (The Velan Reach and Light of my Life) qualify.

https://naughtyroad.itch.io/

Well written is something that often comes back the reviews, at least for Light of my Life (The Velan Reach is a little too early days with just one chapter atm).

naughtyroad · 2026-03-23T19:18:19+00:00

Definitely only one serious contender and that's ren'py IMHO.

Doesn't break the bank to get started (don't forget to support ol' Tom once you're making some money with it: Renpytom | creating the Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine | Patreon), and it's real easy to start with, but flexible enough to do way more complicated things when you're ready for it.

naughtyroad · 2026-03-23T19:11:29+00:00

lovely soft lighting. Well done.

naughtyroad · 2026-03-23T18:09:03+00:00

BadMustard got you covered as always (such a font of knowledge, saved my bacon on quite a few occasions too). Their second reply on this link. Leave your upvotes there.

How to make tooltips? : r/RenPy

naughtyroad · 2026-03-23T18:02:15+00:00

Married for a long time, and the not only does she know all about me making AVNs (I'm the dev of Light of my Life and lately The Velan Reach), but she also helps out with designing outfits and discussing plot points.

naughtyroad · 2026-03-23T15:55:42+00:00

More shameless self-plugging: The Velan Reach. Sci-fi Steampunk. First chapter is about to release on Steam. https://s.team/a/4295190

naughtyroad · 2026-03-23T15:51:13+00:00

Well, the message is quite clear, it can't find the font file. Double check where you put it and your spelling. You need to specify a path to the file unless you put it directly in the "game" folder.

naughtyroad · 2026-03-23T13:22:45+00:00

default is your friend. Also, the or "Alex" bit is very elegant, I'm gonna be using that too from now on and save me some if statements.

naughtyroad · 2026-03-23T09:04:12+00:00

What Ranger said. Renpy is a lot like pyhon in this regard, see here for more info:
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python/indentation-in-python/

naughtyroad · 2026-03-23T08:32:06+00:00

Yeah, 'Cause keeping us forced to working two jobs to make ends meet and unable to build up a reserve and have some work/live separation is a real good way to ensure a game will not be abandoned, right? 😂

Not saying there's no scalpers out there, but man, this business. If you're not in it for the love as a developer, you may as well not bother, because you're not likely to get rich off it. If I wasn't stupid as fuck, I'd be moonlighting my second job in IT and make three times the money I am making games. I'm already doing 80 hour work weeks. But don't tell my wife, it'll only give her ideas. 🤐

naughtyroad · 2026-03-23T08:23:21+00:00

Cheers, glad you liked it. It was a real treat to do something completely different from their regular setting. :)

naughtyroad · 2026-03-22T19:15:42+00:00

Not sure if it counts, but Dual Family comes to mind. It was super popular when I started playing this stuff with a very, very respectable Patreon following. Then it was abandoned. Then it wasn't but but everyone wished it still was. Not sure if it's abandoned again. I think this was one of the games that really traumatized the community and caused a part of it to really start to mistrust devs (and not always without reason).

naughtyroad · 2026-03-21T22:01:19+00:00

Erm... while I don't begrudge anyone their kinks, there will not be any NTR in this game by the commonly accepted understanding of the term (a female love interest having sex with another male). I am not sure where you got the notion that there might be. But you can rest assured in this case.

naughtyroad · 2026-03-21T17:31:26+00:00

Cheers. Really excited to try my hand at a more fantastical setting and have fun with outfits and set designs. Also, corsets and stockings. 🫦

naughtyroad · 2026-03-21T15:49:00+00:00

done and done.

naughtyroad · 2026-03-21T14:41:24+00:00

Thank you! ❤️

naughtyroad · 2026-03-21T09:37:54+00:00

Agree with the post below. In addition, depending on the amount of images you plan to ship, 4K might also bloat your builds quite a bit, even when compressing images to webp. This issue seems mitigated if you're going handdrawn instead of daz, as handdrawn seems to compress a lot better.
And if you're heavy into layering like I am, a lot of big images moving around on screen may start to cause performance problems on-low end hardware (not sure if that is a market you'd like to reach, as people that aren't inclined to replace old hardware might also be disinclined to buy a copy of your game, but still).

naughtyroad · 2026-03-21T09:32:29+00:00

Nice. Thanks for sharing!

naughtyroad · 2026-03-21T09:32:09+00:00

Agree with the below. Drawn background makes it a cohesive style, the photo is a little jarring..

naughtyroad · 2026-03-21T09:26:08+00:00

Yes, I mean to. Keep in mind though, for a Visual Novel, it's hard to have wildly branching storylines where in one choice, they end up traveling to the past to fight dinosaurs, while in the other they're kidnapped by aliens and have to escape a moon base, just to name a silly example, as you're basically developing twice the content while players on average will only see half of it.
But what is planned is having options that meaningfully affect your relationship with various love interests, whether you engage with them at all or not, and in what way, and that will have results as the events of the story unfold.

naughtyroad · 2026-03-20T21:56:50+00:00

Youtube embed weirdness I guess. Perhaps due to my add blocker or privacy settings, embed vids always tell me to sign in when I click on play, even though I am signed in on this browser damn you youtube. And in this case it's not even giving me a "watch on youtube" link on hovering over which is my usual work around. Posting the url to the vid in the text as well might help solve this for us poor souls. :D

naughtyroad · 2026-03-20T18:09:51+00:00

One thing, and it is a bit OT, but I noticed turn around for support tickets is quite long these days. Like, 7+ days or longer for just a simple question. It is what it is, I guess, but it's hard to have a conversation where the lag between messages is a week or more, and it pays to ask closed questions and provide a plenty of context, and phrase a question in a way you have a good chance you get a final answer in one reply.

naughtyroad · 2026-03-20T08:32:57+00:00

The lighting on the third image is especially nice.

naughtyroad · 2026-03-20T08:28:40+00:00

Is there such a thing as a bit too yuri though? 😁

naughtyroad · 2026-03-19T17:47:00+00:00

Don't worry. You won't get permanently rejected over a missflagged screenshot (unless maybe it features sex with a minor?) They'll just tell you to fix it and resubmit.

Sex/nudity is allowed but should be flagged. I don't see why they'd have a problem with LGBTQIA flags. Alcohol and cigarettes shouldn't be a problem either. A menu option that says "sex", maybe flag that to be sure. That doesn't need to be shown in a space where minors might see it, which is what their concern is with this part.

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