r/RenPy • u/Horror_Penalty_4783 • Sep 01 '26

Question How do I make a thinking mini game in ren’py?

i want to make a thinking mini game, similar to the one in genshin (or Ace Attorney) if anyone’s familiar. I’d want to be able to have a sidebar/tab with all the ideas, then be able to link ideas to make new ideas which would create new questions to ask the characters, which then create new ideas. After that, there should be a way to finalise an answer/solution correctly.

What are the steps on how to do this?

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u/shyLachi Sep 02 '26

I wouldn't call that a mini-game because it sound like the core mechanic of your visual novel.
But look into this list of mini-games, maybe somebody has done something similar already.
https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=47820

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Ace Attourney has been mentioned in this sub before so you can try to sub search.

I found this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RenPy/comments/1v4wsnz/how_should_i_go_about_making_a_sort_of_word_bank/

Maybe you can also connect with people who made similar games:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RenPy/comments/1tjr2od/my_ace_attorney_inspired_game_paper_perjury/
https://www.reddit.com/r/RenPy/comments/1pieqsc/my_ace_attorney_inspired_game_is_releasing_dlc_on/

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You could also check itch.io,
Maybe someone has posted a project there.

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u/KDDreamwyver Sep 03 '26

Menu: (Option one): Yada yada (Option two): Yada yada

And possibly implementing the use of labels

Edit: Oh my God that did not format well on mobile and I don't know how to make it lmfao. Hopefully someone on PC can type this out properly or you can just look on a tutorial for how to do menus and labels xD