Advice for writing dating sims

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A friend of my sister is interested in writing a horror dating sim. What first steps can I suggest to get him going in the right direction?

Much appreciated!

Phil

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Some cursory searching. It feels like most people default to Ren’Py.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedesign/comments/m3eare/what_mechanics_do_you_enjoy_want_in_a_dating/

Most good results seemed to come from this VN forum:

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There is a very active Discord for VN developers. The title is “DevTalk” (generic, but that’s what they called it) – invite link here.

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Thanks for the tips! I passed them on to my sister.

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The Seattle/Tacoma meetup was floating romance games as a topic for the February meetup, and I had rounded up these talks that I remembered as being various degrees of relevant to the writing/narrative-design side:

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