Dev adventures, epic bugs, tiny wins, and the occasional meltdown. Zola 2025-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://golden-fox.dev/tags/renpy/atom.xml 2025-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 2025-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 Aakriti Agarwal https://golden-fox.dev/projects/echoes-in-red/ <p>A visual novel built in Ren’Py. You wake up, you make choices, you regret them, and you loop back to where you began. The looping is the point: the story is structured so that the branches fold back into each other rather than fanning out forever.</p> <p>Writing it taught me more about state than about storytelling. A branching narrative is a state machine wearing a costume, and keeping track of what the player had already seen across loops was most of the actual work.</p> <p><strong>Built with:</strong> Ren’Py, Python</p> <p><a rel="external" href="https://golden-fox07.itch.io/echoes-in-red">Play it on itch.io</a> · <a rel="external" href="https://github.com/golden-fox07/Echoes-in-Red">Source</a></p>