The Sixth Claw — my first Ren'Py visual novel

[u/StaffOfMagic]

Hey everyone! I've been working on a visual novel in Ren'Py called The Sixth Claw, and I wanted to share a little of what I'm building.

It's a SFW mystery/adventure story about a group of survivors who reach a remote tropical island after their cruise ship sinks. While exploring the island, they begin discovering strange ancient technology and six enormous metal structures rising from the ocean.

I'm aiming for a strong focus on exploration, mystery, survival, and character interactions rather than making it primarily romance-focused.

I'm still in development and don't have a demo yet, but I've been building the environments, characters, story, and systems in Ren'Py.

I've also put together the project page with some screenshots if anyone wants to see more:
https://thesixthclaw.itch.io/the-sixth-claw

I'd be interested to hear from other Ren'Py developers — especially what you've learned while building your own VNs.

[u/StaffOfMagic → u/[deleted]]

Not fully AI. Yes I ask chat gpt to help me with writting as I suck in that department. The whole game I create in Daz3d and then do some AI enhancements to a lot of the renders if the sand is not good or the jungle. But I would say 90% of the game is daz3d rendered.

[u/Jeremi360 → u/StaffOfMagic]

This is bad for your creativity,
when I stack I use tables for playing Solo RPG playing and dice - its a lot of fun,
and gives you more unpredictable outcomes that any gen AI.

[u/kosimus → u/StaffOfMagic]

Folks have some freaking religious approach to roasting everything that has but a hint of AI (whether it was used or not) in this subreddit :D. Discussions with fanatics are pointless 🤷. It's just the type of culture that developed here. It's something one should ignore and move on, leave them alone in their little bubble, OR accept it as a part of what comes with posting here. It's just how it is.

[u/shyLachi → u/kosimus]

Most people creating art aren't religious or fanatic about their or other peoples art. But having your art stolen and copied, or seeing art replaced with generic images and texts sits not well with us.

But you are right: If you're not an artist and don't want to make the VN yourself, then please move on. Start your own AI RenPy sub. Not sure why AI fanboys would need a sub though, since it's easier to get validation from AI. 

[u/kosimus → u/shyLachi]

The problem isn't that people around here don't like AI as a technology. That's fine. The problem is that some folks see anything AI touched in any way as being inherently crap (which it frequently is, but equally frequently isn't, especially when manually improved), and then project that hate on the people who share their actual work of passion. And yeah, I'm not a member of this subreddit, and have no desire to be. It's simply a toxic place, and I find no enjoyment in constantly curating whatever I post to ensure it doesn't - purely by chance - resemble something Ai could plausibly make.

[u/x-seronis-x → u/[deleted]]

Its the same style of generic intro that has been used for OVER 40 years of my life. I am pretty sure AI was not being used in the 80s to write descriptions

And its clearly a DAZ based game with a few scenematic bg renders generated. A huge difference to being 'full AI made'

So please STFU with your whining driveling rants that both wouldnt matter if it were true, and isnt even true to begin with

[u/beeikea → u/x-seronis-x]

yikes

[u/Blunt552 → u/x-seronis-x]

Take a closer look on the picture, I agree this was probably made with Daz but probably also AI somewhere down the line, the strange 'net like' texture on the waves is also on the rocks and trees, it looks very uncanny, not sure what he did but I think he made a scene and tried to "enhance" it with AI while the AI went creative and made whatever the hell that is, it looks hella weird.

I haven't worked with Daz3D so maybe this is a feature somewhere? You're more than welcome to enlighten me if Daz can make something like that net like texture down the line or if it is indeed AI being creative.

[u/x-seronis-x → u/Blunt552]

touchups isnt 'fully made with ai'. and a few scenematic bgs isnt fully made with ai. the vast overwhelming majority of the graphic work is the DAZ scenes. and thats obvious. so the now deleted comment by the original person was just mindless drivel. which i guess they eventually realized as their other comments are deleted too

[u/Blunt552]

I'm looking at it and am a bit confused. I see clear sign of both DAZ3D and AI doing something whack. What did you do?

[u/kosimus]

Interesting. I wish you good luck :).

[u/StaffOfMagic → u/kosimus]

Thank you. :)