100 Terms Visual Novel Devs Must Learn, or DIE 

I'm realising now I probably should have learned this stuff before spending years working on a visual novel... Oops.

I'M SO GLAD YOU UPLOADED ANOTHER AWESOME VIDEO, I LOVE THEM SO MUCH they're so useful dude, thank you 😭🤲💗

Great video, Vimi! I’ve been a dev for a long time and a VN fan even longer, and even I picked up some new vocab! I’ve been linking your videos on the Ren’py beginner guide page on my website. Your videos are the very best place to start for an absolute beginner and beyond! :) ❤

Even as someone who considers themselves well versed in visual novels, I learned a lot from this (Plus seeing the Clannad and New Game clips made me smile

Another great video! 1:18 I consider sound novel a relevant term only because Ryukishi adopted it to describe Higurashi and he's the GOAT to me.

I've got a tough one for you. I've grown a lot as a Ren'Py developer thanks to you, so if anyone can steer me in the right direction, it's you. I'm trying to craft a unique notetaking system. Some have presented something a little similar, but they go off in in different directions because their systems are still different. I want the notebook to be on its own screen [got that], have custom text entry with a very high character count [only somewhat got that], retain the content of the notes [don't got that], and be fully available to the player at any time [don't got that]. Imagine the History page except the player types in everything, or Post-It Notes in a book format. The player can open the screen and it can be a list of entries like the Save screen, or it can just be like a scroll a mile long. Either way, I need it to capture typed user input, retain it, and display all it to the player on demand. I can't find anyone doing this exact system, so I don't know how to move forward from here. Would you ever try this out and make a video on it? I've been piecing it together, but I get stuck on making the most important pieces intersect. I feel like I can do it, but I also feel like I'm missing some key information that ties all of the pieces I've smashed together into a clean and useful genre transforming feature.

Your background lighting reminds me of the movie "eyes wide shut" which played with visual elements, like these colors. Each had a specific meaning.

I subscribed a few weeks ago and was hoping you'd upload again soon, so it's really cool to see this video!!

Your channel is incredible, dude. Cheers from a Brazillian visual novel enjoyer.

A great overview for someone starting out in VN development!

thank you so much for uploading more, you help a lot of people

This was great. It’s a really cool primer not just for devs, but fans and newcomers too.

These vids are so motivating when considering working on a VN.

Glad to see you back!

yoo, thanks for the video! ❤️

Please keep those content! I got into building VNs because of you. Thank you!!

I'm glad I catch onto a lot of these terms subconsciously before I learn the terminology.

Some of these terms are useful for any form of game or software development too. This is a handy guide

I'm glad you have a word for Visual novels with no gameplay. Kinetic Novels, "KNs" fit my series better.

I'm glad RU-vid recommended this to me.. I really needed it🥺

Your content creation is getting better and better!

Just found your channel! Looking forward to binging your channel

Been a while since Vimi uploaded renpy tutorials, thank you for sharing more depth about VN!

YES!! A NEW VIDEO!! LETS GOOOO

A really cool video overall! I was suprised to learn there were terms I didn't know of (mainly some professional gamedev ones, haha). For example, I didn't realize there were names for certain narrative structures in VNs. I'm gonna have to take notes... A point I'd like to raise, though: the term "Bara" as you described it is only popular in western VN/anime/manga circles. In Japan itself, it's considered controversial - and many gay creatives there have expressed their discomfort with the term. Over there, the term they'd use (for manga at least) would be "geikomi", with subterms used for the body types they're depicting (eg. "gachimuchi" for muscly characters). Otherwise, good work!

your channel is amazing

19:12 Don't know why it bugs me so much, but bishoujo and bishonen are pronounced beeshoujo and beeshonen. Sorry, had to get it out.

the goat dropped a new video pause everything

Wait, there are actually anthology VNs? I've seen the Kusoge label also applied to "So bad it's good" fighting games within the FGC. Also, please update more. I love your stuff.

lets gooo new vid!!

Tell me about RGA patch shown in joi play emulator

Half way thru the video, bu im curious what VNs do you recommend for some one looking to learn more about the genre. I think the only one I played was Doki Doki Literature Club.

Thank you! Can you please do the graphics tutorial for people who know nothing about graphical design? Like where to start?

Monokuma?! :O This is serious puhuhuhuhuhuuhu

Digging whole entire traffic light you've got chilling in your setup xD

You caught me I did just jump in

I’m curious about that rvn thing, any recommendations for rvn games?

9:25 The cursed stock footage of Graves jungling while somebody pretends to use a gamepad haunts me. Is it some inside joke I'm not getting? You can't make that on accident Also, talking smack about Chuunige is maidenless behaviour

That pronounciation of bishoujo made me think of a double meaning lol. That aside, this is a good refresher for me who haven't played many VNs but want to borrow some elements for my game. Cheers

Is there a genre that is both visual novel and soulslike with roguelike elements?

It is kind of weird that we call them all VNs, isn't it? It's sort of like calling any console a "Nintendo" or tissues "Kleenex". Glad you covered this and talked about a lot of early VNs that a lot of people may not have experienced. Great primer. Thank you

btw. what anime is on the intro?

Why did I know most of these terms at age 11 and why did I not learn any additional ones throughout the next 8 years?!

imagine making a video where you feel you have to explain the concept of "Choices"

I guess GDLC is way more complex than standard SDLC huh.

That was interesting, thanks. So, I'm a Dev... OK :)

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Why should any visual novel game dev die from not learning these terms?

Did someone play Everlasting Summer here? Russian visual novel

GL and Yuri are like comparing Ero and P*rn, first is centered around an idea, and the other - around n*dity. Same goes for BL and Yaoi.

What I literary don't understand is why 99% of the VN are made in bloody freaking Japanese anime style. Honestly, why?

Very good video thx