Hi. I’ve only been making text-based games for a good while (most of which will never see the light of day) but I’m looking to expand to visual novel types. My current project is a short point-and-click game with sfx and vfx. Is there any software I can use won’t overwhelm me with the amount of buttons and options?
ct.js is free, and offers everything renpy offers and is easier to use. It uses JS. You can layout each image as a background for each room and just display text over it with sounds or whatever ... GameMaker (GMS2) does this very well too BUT the free version does not post to itch. Every dev will have a different approach. Godot has a framework for this too, I tried it but JS works better for me.
Also, if you just want to go off the deep end,....
check out baby brother ... With a little begging, I could do a framework for you in JS so you only need to add the pictures and sounds...
Then if you get board because it too easy, you can look at the source code and add more features...
Baby Brother was coded in GMS 1.4+ with HTML5 export.... basically JS. I could do the same thing in CT.JS or even PHP in
a few minutes work. In fact, for a PHP example, I have Jasi Comic with my daughters comics ....
I set that up so my daughter could upload comics (directly in the browser) and the viewer would automate viewing ...
Notice they are referenced via a number (controlled by the website) ... exactly how a text based game would do it.
