What It Means to Design Scenarios with AI
From the moment my kid said "visual novel," we have come this far. Twenty parts. Looking back, we have covered quite a distance. Not a single line of code was written. Ren'Py was never installed. And yet the most important work of this project is done. Scenario design. The work of understanding the structure of emotion and translating it into systems. What I Discovered on This Journey At the start, the goal was "making a visual novel." By the end, the goal had shifted. Making a visual novel is not technically difficult. Ren'Py handles most of the technical challenges. The difficult part is making a visual novel that truly moves the player's emotions. And for that, what you need is not technology but an understanding of emotion. Love is not a single variable but the result of conditions. A scene is not a backdrop but an amplifier of emotion. The consequences of choices arrive not immediately but later. Good choices can become tragedy. Actions and inner ...