I’m only skilled at writing and know very little about coding. Even so, I managed to create my first visual novel from scratch with its help, putting every thought and idea I wanted to express into this work.

Though my game is still not indexed in the itch.io search results to this day, it is still an enormous breakthrough for me.

Thank you all for your support！But one question still lingers, though: my game is quite a massive project, with over 560 narrative cards in total. That’s why players always experience lag when playing it either in the browser or the downloaded version — even though I never had any stuttering issues when running it directly from the software myself.

I know there’s still so much room for improvement, especially with the underlying code. There are still a lot of issues I haven’t managed to fix yet, but I’ve truly done the best I could with what I had.

Would you mind me posting the link to my own game?

Yes, please share your game! As far as I'm aware it's absolutely OK to share your own works here!

Decker can lag a bit with larger file sizes, but there may be some ways to bring it down. A recent Decker update added better image compression, that can help if you've got a lot of images. I did peek into your profile and found your game, and I noticed it's made with an older version, so updating could help. Another thing that can help is keeping in mind that each card will have a separate copy of an image, even if they're mostly the same. So if you've got two cards with the same or similar images and just different scripts, maybe they can be combined. But it may be tricky to do that with a project that's already pretty large.

Congratulations, L'alpha Lara!

You're very welcome to share links to your Decker projects in this forum. (That goes for everyone!)

I do second Millie's advice to upgrade Decker to the latest version. Skimming the release notes for intervening versions is a good idea; sometimes new revisions will require tweaks to old projects for compatibility reasons. If you're using any modules or contraptions in your project, you may need to upgrade those to their latest releases as well.

In general Web-Decker is somewhat slower than Native-Decker, especially when running on older computers. If you can be more specific about what you mean by "lagging" we might have some suggestions.