My Best (Magical) Friend - LD34

Posted by SPOTCO on December 2015

If you haven't already played it, try our LD34 entry "My Best (Magical) Friend", a very japanese visual novel about friendship and cool magic powers.
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=35477

And since this is always fun, here's some work-in-progress shots.

HOW TO MAKE A VISUAL NOVEL:

STEP 1: Write a bunch of stuff on pieces of paper.

STEP 2: Google docs because nobody else can read handwriting.

STEP 3: Plan out the whole story in MSPaint.

STEP 4: Write a little code.

STEP 5: Write some scripts. A lot of scripts. (This part took the longest!)

And voila, that's how a visual novel was made! Some screenshots of the final game:

Give it a shot, and hope you like it! Was very interesting to do something story-based (since I usually do action).