ZuneVisualNovel

[badmoodguy88]

Zune Visual Novel
This is a framework for a Visual Novel.
Right now it runs but has no content to speak of.
The code has gone through several revisions and is meant to be relatively straight forward and easy to use.

it is under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3
download here
ZuneVisualNovel 1.1.zip

I might add in a save feature in a few days and maybe something to help with story branching but it is not likely.
I am releasing this so other people can do something with it if they are so inclined.

have fun
with this kind of game
the programing is easy
finishing is hard

[BlackFox]

So what does it do exactly?

[badmoodguy88]

Think of what a visual novel is at its core. Something that shows you a series of flash card like text boxes on top of people and a background. As you click forward 'page' after 'page' at certain times the image is going to change. You may wish to skip backwards a few 'pages'. You want this rewinding to show you past text but not actually take the player back in game time. So the pictures stay the same and the text box turns blue. When you press forward again the game takes you to the current next page and the game looks normal again. You also want a button to hide the text box so that you can see the full background. The A button does that as long as it is held down.

With this 'game' I have does a lot of the work for you because most of the game is there. You just need to supply some back grounds, tell the game where to put them, and most importantly put something in as text. The game has 99 draw strings set to display in an efficient fashion and in such a way that it is clear how to add more. The code is very straight forward and it has comments in it. If anyone is actually interested in making a game like this then they can start with this and ask questions if they need to. I am sure they will not be hard to answer.

[ConnerWoods]

Originally Posted by badmoodguy88

Think of what a visual novel is at its core. Something that shows you a series of flash card like text boxes on top of people and a background. As you click forward 'page' after 'page' at certain times the image is going to change. You may wish to skip backwards a few 'pages'. You want this rewinding to show you past text but not actually take the player back in game time. So the pictures stay the same and the text box turns blue. When you press forward again the game takes you to the current next page and the game looks normal again. You also want a button to hide the text box so that you can see the full background. The A button does that as long as it is held down.

With this 'game' I have does a lot of the work for you because most of the game is there. You just need to supply some back grounds, tell the game where to put them, and most importantly put something in as text. The game has 99 draw strings set to display in an efficient fashion and in such a way that it is clear how to add more. The code is very straight forward and it has comments in it. If anyone is actually interested in making a game like this then they can start with this and ask questions if they need to. I am sure they will not be hard to answer.

is it basically a customizable book reader?

[BlackFox]

So can it play animations? Like a flip book.

[badmoodguy88]

I am getting the impression that you are unfamiliar with this style of game
here is a wiki article on them
Visual novel

[BlackFox]

Yea I have no idea what a visual novel is.

[Azu-nyan]

Wait...a VN engine on the Zune.
...............
And kinetic novels are all fine and good, but it really needs the ability to branch. :<

[Robborboy]

Holy crap. I was planning on making one for the Zune HD, but I had to learn XNA first. This make everything a whole lot easier. Thanks! Though the ability to save would be nice, but this is a great start.