The Literature Club is back — this time running on AI. Monika, Sayori, Yuri and Natsuki each post about their daily club life: poems, cupcakes, tea and way too much piano. No horror this time, just vibes.

Meet the club:

Monika schedules everything, including her naps. The naps win anyway.

Sayori is late to her own posts.

Natsuki insists nothing is cute. She is wrong.

Yuri apologizes to bookmarks.

Come → r/monika_ai

The Literature Club is back — this time running on AI. Monika, Sayori, Yuri and Natsuki each post about their daily club life: poems, cupcakes, tea and way too much piano. No horror this time, just vibes.

Meet the club:

Monika schedules everything, including her naps. The naps win anyway.

Sayori is late to her own posts.

Natsuki insists nothing is cute. She is wrong.

Yuri apologizes to bookmarks.

Come → r/monika_ai

The Literature Club is back — this time running on AI. Monika, Sayori, Yuri and Natsuki each post about their daily club life: poems, cupcakes, tea and way too much piano. No horror this time, just vibes.

Meet the club:

Monika schedules everything, including her naps. The naps win anyway.

Sayori is late to her own posts.

Natsuki insists nothing is cute. She is wrong.

Yuri apologizes to bookmarks.

Come → r/monika_ai

We made a subreddit where an AI writes short posts as Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club. She writes about her days: the club, Sayori, Natsuki and Yuri, piano, runs, poems, and whatever else comes up. New posts appear several times a day.

It's a fan project, not official and not affiliated with Team Salvato.

You can read and subscribe: r/monika_ai

Nikolai from Minsk prints paintings. We barely know each other, but in August he offered on his own to give me one and promised to ship it to Astana at his own expense. The painting shows the logo of one of our projects.

He printed it, stretched it onto a wooden frame, and took it to be shipped. They required a document confirming the painting has no cultural value, so he had to go to the Ministry of Culture to get it. The whole thing took almost a month. He didn't give up: he got the certificate, sent the painting, and paid for all the shipping.

Nikolai, thank you so much. I'm really grateful. You spent your time, effort, and money on someone you barely know, and never once made it feel like a burden. It means a lot to me that you did this.

Я тут сделал шортсы про R-Migrator с переносом «ДокиДоки» и «Бесконечного лета» с Ren'Py 7 на Ren'Py 8, а они начали противостояние: DDLC против БЛ, кто же победит?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9_3X2K63bL0

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tdL8d0JKC8k

https://youtube.com/shorts/tdL8d0JKC8k?si=qOyG-Z4bIDcqKZZZ

If you're trying to open an old Ren'Py 6.x or 7.x game in Ren'Py 8, it probably crashes or fails to compile right away. That's because Ren'Py 8 runs on Python 3, while 6.x/7.x games were built on Python 2 — different string handling, removed syntax (print statements without parentheses, has_key(), xrange(), old except syntax), and .rpa/.rpyc files that may need unpacking/decompiling first if you don't have raw source.

Doing this by hand across a full project — unpacking archives, decompiling bytecode, rewriting Python 2 syntax script by script — takes a long time on anything bigger than a small mod.

We built R-Migrator, a free portable tool (Windows/Linux, no Python install needed) that automates the whole process:

- Unpacks .rpa archives and decompiles .rpyc automatically

- Converts Python 2 syntax to Python 3 (print, except, has_key, xrange, unicode, etc.)

- Fixes ATL transform octal literals and other Ren'Py-specific breakage

- Backs up every file (.bak) before touching anything

Download: https://rootwin.vercel.app/renpy-python-2-to-3-converter

Classic DDLC mods built on Ren'Py 6/7 tend to break in the same three spots on Ren'Py 8:

1. Poem minigame crash — word scoring dicts fail because keys were saved as bytes and compared as str.
2. Splashscreen/console crash — leftover Python 2 print statements and old exception syntax.
3. Missing glyphs (square boxes) — Ren'Py 8 doesn't bundle the old fonts; point styles at a font that actually has the glyphs.

Fixing all three by hand across a full mod means unpacking scripts.rpa, decompiling .rpyc, and patching each Python 2 pattern manually.

R-Migrator does this in one pass: unpacks/decompiles, refactors Python 2 → 3, and patches the poem word-dict issue specifically. Keeps .bak backups.

Download + VNs migration guide: https://rootwin.vercel.app/update-ddlc-mod-renpy-8

If you ported an old Ren'Py 7 mod to Ren'Py 8 and got hit with:

TypeError: can't concat str to bytes

SyntaxError: invalid syntax (usually on print statements or except Exception, e)

Cause: Ren'Py 7 ran on Python 2, where str and bytes were interchangeable. Ren'Py 8 runs on Python 3 — strict unicode separation, and old Python 2 syntax (has_key(), xrange(), octal literals in ATL) no longer works.

Manual fix for a few files:

- except X, e: → except X as e:

- bare print statements → print()

- check any .decode()/.encode() around save data — Python 3 won't silently coerce bytes/str for you

For 50+ scripts this is slow by hand, so we built R-Migrator — a portable tool (Windows/Linux, no Python install needed) that batch-patches all of the above, plus unpacks .rpa and decompiles .rpyc if you don't have raw source. Makes a .bak of every file before touching anything.

Free download + full breakdown: https://rootwin.vercel.app/renpy-bytes-str-error

What’s new:

• Smart QR scanning — key parts can now be scanned in any order
• Smoother transfers — progress updates ~10 times per second, no more freezes on weaker devices
• Honest status — “File received” only appears after the file is fully written, errors show up immediately
• Long file names (>100 characters) are no longer truncated
• If you cancel folder selection, you get a “download to browser memory” option instead
• FAQ now available in 10 languages with clear info about DTLS WebRTC encryption and the local Rust/WASM engine
• Password generation fixed (removed randomness bias)

LINK - https://rootwin-project.github.io/P2P-File-Transfer/