Translucent Trails
I knew you had been lying this entire time,
And even so, I forgive you.
A 500 word kinetic (no-choice) visual novel made for Neo Twiny Jam 2024.
Music by Rrrrrose Azerty under a CC0 license.
Image from pixabay, under a CC0 license.
Content Warning: references to self-harm, self-loathing, death, and suicide. Please take care of yourself.
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Development log
- Released! And more info about this game!Jul 03, 2024
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You do a very good job with the imagery, and the sketch on photo works really well here.
The floating letters are especially beautiful and very smooth. Do you mind sharing the code?
Sorry for the late reply! Thank you for your kind words! :D
As for the floating text, I'd be glad to share:
image textsnow = SnowBlossom(Text("{color=#ffffff50}...", slow_cps=1, size=88), count=10, border=50, xspeed=(-20, 150), yspeed=(-100, -200), start=0, fast=False, horizontal=False)
Image below has it in colors for easier understanding:
Once that code is in, you can use "show textsnow" in your games code like you typically would for an image. The idea is that you still use SnowBlossom and its usual settings for speed/direction, but instead of an image you use Text as a displayable like it's an image. You can use text tags in that Text displayable for more visual options, though I would highly recommend using {noalt} for actual non punctuation words so the text-to-speech function doesn't go wild lol.
That’s… Oh my god. I never knew snowblossom could be used for text. It makes sense, since it’s also a displayable, but… I’m absolutely mindblown. It feels like something that should be obvious but also not. Thank you!
Wow. Just wow.
This is so well written, that I'm at a loss for words.
Thank you so much for the kind words! :D
These two games together paint a really beautiful picture !!!
Thank you so much Heiden!! 😊
This was really beautiful!
Thank you so much for the kind comment~! :D