Ren’Py is a free visual novel engine that uses Python for scripting logic. It is designed for interactive storytelling, combining text, images, and sound to create branching narratives, visual dialogue, and player choices. Official site: renpy.org
Over the next two weeks, we’ll be doing some related exercises in worldbuilding and character development. We might refer to this as a “world bible”. You may choose to use this as the basis for your final project in this class, or not!
This exercise will continue to take a “top down” approach to the worldbuilding. In this phase, we’ll continue to zoom in and use our understanding of the society which lives in your world and its shared history to develope one character that belongs to this fictional society.
For this exerciase you will need:
*If you decide to use pen and paper, you will need to submit a scanned/photographed copy of these documents.
Notes from phase 2 of this exercise are here.
Assignment details can be found on the Canvas Assignment.