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# This file demonstrates the Ren'Py User Experience... the features you get
# for free by choosing to use Ren'Py as a visual novel engine.
init:
image popup prefs = "prefs.png"
image popup mjcprefs = "mjcprefs.jpg"
image popup save = "save.png"
transform onscreenshot:
xpos 0.1 xanchor 0.0 ypos 0.1 yanchor 0.0
label tutorial_playing:
e "As someone who has played more than a few visual novels, there are many features that I expect all games to have."
e "Features like saving, loading, changing preferences, and so on."
e "One of the nice things about Ren'Py is that the engine provides many of these features for you. You can spend your time creating your game, and let us provide these things."
e "While you're in the game, you can access the game menu by right clicking or hitting the escape key."
show eileen happy at right
show popup save at onscreenshot
with moveinleft
e "When you first enter the game menu, you'll see the save screen. Clicking on a numbered slot will save the game."
e "Unlike other engines, Ren'Py doesn't limit the number of save slots that you can use."
e "The load screen looks quite similar to the save screen, and lets you load a game from a save slot."
e "It also lets you load one of the auto-saves that Ren'Py makes for you."
show popup prefs at onscreenshot
with dissolve
e "The other screen of the game menu is the preferences screen."
e "This screen lets you decide how Ren'Py displays, pick what Ren'Py skips, control text speed and auto-click speed, and adjust sound, music, and voice volumes."
e "The game menu also lets you end the game and return to the main menu, or quit Ren'Py entirely."
show popup mjcprefs at onscreenshot
with dissolve
e "While the default game menus look a bit generic, with a little work they can be customized or even entirely replaced, allowing you to create menus as unique as your game."
hide popup
show eileen happy at center
with moveoutleft
e "While inside the game, there are a few more things you can do."
e "When I'm liking a visual novel, I want to see all the endings. Ren'Py's skip function lets me easily do this, by skipping text that I've already seen."
e "I can skip a few lines by holding down Control, or I can toggle skip mode by pressing tab."
e "By default, we only skip read text, so this won't do anything the first time through the game."
e "Pressing the 's' key saves a screenshot to disk, so I can upload pictures of the game to websites like {a=http://www.renpy.org}renpy.org{/a}."
e "Finally, there's rollback, which lets you go back in time to previous screens, letting you re-read text."
menu:
e "Would you like to hear more about rollback?"
"Yes.":
jump tutorial_rollback
"No.":
jump tutorial_rollback_done
label tutorial_rollback:
e "You can invoke a rollback by scrolling the mouse wheel up, or by pushing the page up key. That'll bring you back to the previous screen."
e "While at a previous screen, you can roll forward by scrolling the mouse wheel down, or pushing the page down key."
e "Rolling forward through a menu will make the same choice you did last time. But unlike other engines, Ren'Py's rollback system allows you to make a different choice."
e "You can try it by rolling back through the last menu, and saying 'No'."
e "Press page up, or scroll up the mouse wheel."
show eileen concerned
e "Well, are you going to try it?"
e "Your loss."
e "Moving on."
show eileen happy
label tutorial_rollback_done:
e "By allowing Ren'Py to take care of out-of-game issues like loading and saving, you can focus on making your game, while still giving users the experience they've come to expect."
return
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