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I recently made the first publish of my ongoing Ren'Py motion graphics comic Homeless Rice Ninja: The Rocky Road. This preview is just three "pages" long, so you can check it out and be done in about a minute.
https://seanhrn.itch.io/homeless-rice-ninja-the-rocky-road-preview
It's a somewhat unusual application of Ren'Py in that it's not a game and it doesn't use the VN character dialogue box. The preview is "silent film" style with no dialogue. The later parts will have speech bubbles.

I'm good with any feedback, but here are my questions important for this small start:

1. Does it run well on your system? Which OS build did you try?

2. For Windows and Mac: Are the taskbar/file manager/application window rice ball icons clearly visible?

3. What do you think of the controls? (See the Control Help screen for details.)

4. More paper texture or less paper texture, or is it fine as-is? (I'm afraid making it user-adjustable isn't an option because Ren'Py doesn't have multiply blending; the top menu screen just uses an opacity trick.)

5. Ren'Py devs: What do you think of how the ATL is being used? Any suggestions for functions and features that would be of good use for this kind of project?

Homeless Rice Ninja: The Rocky Road is the start of my Ren'Py comic series about a living rice ball in a world where everything is either a food or otherwise related to cooking in some way. The Rice Ninja was evicted from its apartment by the key lime pie landlord, so it wanders the food landscape in search of a new home. It tends to get into fights with other food people. When the foods fight, they exchange blows based on facts about food science and cooking. In The Rocky Road, the Rice Ninja finds a desert made of rocky road ice cream (a "dessert desert") and takes a job as a malt ball miner for the graham cracker village (where people live in ice cream cones).

This is a free mini preview consisting of the first three pages and focused on showing how I'm putting Ren'Py's display features to use. This one is about the exploration; the Good Eats fight scene is to come later. I plan on updating the comic regularly (probably biweekly). 

https://seanhrn.itch.io/homeless-rice-ninja-the-rocky-road-preview

Features

• Available on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X
• Looping fog effects
• All monochrome
• Stylized depictions of food
• Full keyboard navigation and full mouse navigation
• More fog