Script News - For Followers/Free members

I thought it might be helpful for free members to get posts now and then about whats new on my Patreon since apparently, Patreon doesn't notify free members about new content in the paid tiers. So in this post you can see some of my most recent scripts I have uploaded in case you have any interest in them, and what tiers they belong to.

Simple Shop/Store Script

The most recent script I have uploaded is a simple store script where you can let your players buy items in different categories. You have a categories list to the left and a grid of items that belong to the currently selected category to the right.

This uses a nested dictionary to store all items and their respective categories, as well as the price and amount of each item.

It uses a very simple money system that just subtracts the pricing of the items, intended to give you an idea of how to work with money in a shop like this.

There's a few python functions included you can call to help you manage the shop. These are functions to add a new item, remove an item, and more of an item (increase stock), change the pricing of items etc.

The Supporter tier post has more info and the downloadable script: https://www.patreon.com/posts/simple-store-for-95978532 

Drag & Drop Cooking/Assemble Script

Another script recently uploaded is a cooking - or assembling script, where the goal is to stack sandwich items according to customers orders. Orders will keep coming in as you complete others, as long as the shift timer hasn't finished. Once it's at 0 the shift is over, but you can complete orders you haven't finished yet.

Once you are done assembling an order in the correct order, you click the order note at the top that it belongs to. That order then goes away and another one will appear with a random timer (to make it seem more realistic, as orders don't generally come in as soon as another finished).

You can customize this script to something different than cooking if you want. The core mechanics are drag and drop assembling things on top of each other, so there's many possibilities. 

Each completed order earns the player a specific amount of points that you can of course set to whatever you like.

The Supporter tier post has more info and the downloadable script: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cooking-minigame-92857607

Floating Dust Particles Effect

I also made floating dust particle effect script that you can use to give some atmosphere to your games. You can swap the particle images for your own of course, but need to keep the filenames the same.

It uses a SpriteManager that generates the particles that fades in and out on the screen as they move around to random locations. To use it, you call a function I've named "create_dust_particles" that you supply how many particles you want on the screen. 

The sprites are only created once, none are being destroyed as they simply get relocated to a new position once done fading out and when they've reached their destination point on the screen.

To display it, you would add the "dust" SpriteManager object to a screen or label of your choice. Be careful about showing the SpriteManager several times on top of each other, as that can slow down Ren'Py eventually. 

Read more in the post for the script in the link below.

The Supporter tier post has more info and the downloadable script: https://www.patreon.com/posts/renpy-floating-90377012

That's about it for now. Hope this helped those of you who might have wanted to get an idea of the latest scripts uploaded. Thanks for reading and I wish you a good 2024!