Ren'Py Phone System

No longer are your visual novels bound to fantasy settings or by roleplaying "Your phone buzzes and you read the message." in the dialogue box"! Let your characters talk the modern way with this lil Ren'Py phone system (coming in both smart phone and flip phone flavours, of course). 📱

If you like this project, make sure to give it a star on Github, leave a rating, and/or get the supporters edition! ⭐ And you can view the demo here 🥰

✨What does the Ren'Py Phone™️ do?

• Obviously, a contacts list and direct messages
  
• Smart Phone mode (default) and Flip Phone mode!
• Light Mode (default) and Dark mode!
• Group chats between characters! They can join, leave, and add others as well.
• Emojis! Use any images you want as in-line text emojis.
• Photos! Send photos in chat of any size or aspect ratio
• Choices! Have the user select what text to reply with, and optionally, make that branch to different paths with Jump/Call
• Animated! Pretty little animations that make it feel more like a real phone.
• Optional sounds included! But of course you can always use your own as well. You can also customise when they play (or if at all)
• Super easy to customise! A giant config exists at the top of the file where you can change anything from the language of the phone to the size of the text
• Easily change the phone design, screen layout, and bubbles! The images are super easy and there's a few examples of how to change it already~ (for example, adding a fake status bar to the top of the phone)
• Lots of small quality of life features: timestamps in chats, making message previews in the contact list different than the message, hiding/showing/deleting existing chats, forcing pauses, forcing the user to look at a specific chat, notifications, message history in the dialogue history, move the phone around and change the size, animate the phone, wait for the user to click to continue or have automated messages send with pauses, support Ren'Py's skip mode, and a lot more!!

• The Ren'Py Phone is 100% standalone and does not require you to change anything about your project to add it
• Does not rely on NVL mode or other special Ren'Py settings, use it anywhere anyhow
• Takes like, a few lines of code at most, to get started. I tried to make it super-duper-super easy!
• The download includes a fully fleshed out demo game, where the examples for you to copy to your project (ex. how to send a message) are in script.rpy and the phone system is in phone.rpy
• Fully documented both in code and with setup instructions in the README
• This project is free with a license that's basically "credit me"! Please see the top of phone.rpy to learn more specific details.
• Ultimately, after downloading, just head over to the README.md and go through those few steps!

😇Supporter's edition? More phones!

• This is purely optional but I did pour a tonne of love into making it, so if it helps you or you can profit off of your game with it, I hope maybe this is worth it!
• You get 7 extra smart phone designs and 4 extra flip phone designs included! (and some of them are really heckin cute, like the flower flip phone or sticker smart phone)
• Priority support! I will help you directly, 1:1, night or day, rain or snow, even during a zombie apocalypse! (zombie apocalypse support not 100% guaranteed)

💗Projects using my phone!

• Haven University by Sam Rose, which initially was what I developed this for
• Your game here! DM me on Discord @ kleineluka!

Hey, listen! Need help setting it up, found a bug, or just have a question? Please reach out! You can find my contacts on my website here, on Discord at kleineluka, or through email (lukazoeysong@gmail.com)! 💗