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3. Acquired a free Visual Novel Maker (just Google search for "Ren'Py"). Going to work on a very simple horror-mystery story for experimenting purposes. The coding is pretty easy to understand even if you're a beginner in programming.
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Old program, but if you want to make a 2D visual novel, this is the thing to use.

You won't be able to do anything "cool" without learning basic coding, ruby, or copying and editing community codes.