Divooka Explore

The Visual Novel examples

The Visual Novel folder of the Divooka Explore example pack teaches Novella in order, from three nodes to a whole game. Every document runs as it is, and the two complete games carry their art, sound and scripts in the document's library.

Example	Style	What it teaches
Hello Novella	Routine graph	The smallest game: Make Novella Game, Load Script with the story on a Text node, Run. The story has no art yet, so Novella draws placeholders.
Characters and Images	Routine graph	A game configured from nodes rather than script definitions: Define Image, Define Character, Set Theme and Set Default.
Story as Nodes	Flows graph	A scene built as data, from Start Sequence to a Menu of Make Choice nodes, and a story assembled into a Game Definition.
Game as a Function	Function and Flows graphs	A member Function graph, Build Game, returns a Game Definition, and the Flows graph calls it and plays it.
Live Script	Events graph	A Novella Application whose Script event is the story, with a Menu's answer feeding a Branch, and why a live script cannot be saved.
Commands	Events graph	The script's `run roll` and `run greet "Wei"` answered by the Command event through Set Result, with Get Variable and Set Variable reaching the story's variables.
Moon Festival Riddles	Events graph	A small complete game: lantern riddles at the Mid-Autumn Festival, three riddles, two endings, a gallery picture and three achievements.
The Red Thread	Events graph	The sample game, whole: 87 files embedded in the library, Setup loading them and Command answering the story's `fortune`.

Run any of them, or play a definition from the Custom Preview in the Properties panel: select Make Game Definition, or any Sequence, Label or Story node, after a run and press Custom Preview.

A complete game

Moon Festival Riddles

Lantern riddles at the Mid-Autumn Festival: three riddles, two endings, a gallery picture and three achievements, its art painted by the recipe that wrote it.

A girl and Grandpa Lu under rows of red lanterns, with three answers to a riddle — The first lantern riddle.

Grandpa Lu hands over the rabbit lantern — The rabbit lantern, won.

Two figures on an arched bridge against a full moon and its reflection — Two moons from the bridge.

Routine graph

Hello Novella

Three nodes and a Text node make a game. The story names a courtyard and a girl it has no pictures for, so Novella draws placeholders: a gradient for the background, a silhouette for the character, each labelled with the image it stands for. A game looks like this before its art exists, and it is already playable.

See the graph

A placeholder silhouette labelled mei smile over a gradient labelled bg courtyard, with two choices — A choice over placeholder art.

Routine graph

Characters and Images

A game configured from nodes instead of script definitions: Define Image makes colour panels beside the built-in black and white, Define Character gives two speakers their colours and image tags, and Set Theme and Set Default finish the job.

Two placeholder characters, lan and bai, over a purple panel, with Old Bai speaking — Two characters and a background, defined from nodes.

Routine graph: a long chain from Make Novella Game through Define Image, Define Character, Set Theme and Set Default to Load Script and Run — The Characters and Images Routine graph, one chain from Make Novella Game to Run. Select it to see it at full size.

Events graph

Commands

A story asks its program for things with run. Here the script's run roll and run greet "Wei" arrive at the Command event, which branches on the command's name and answers through Set Result; the story reads the answer as _return. Random Integer draws from the story's own generator, so rolling back and throwing again draws the same number.

A placeholder character, Ming, proposing a dice game for a mooncake — Ming proposes a throw of the dice.

Events graph: Setup defines the teahouse, Ming and the script; the Command event branches on Equals to Random Integer and Format, or to Get Variable, Set Variable and Format — The Commands Events graph: Setup above, the Command event below.

Open them in Divooka Explore

Explore ships every package its example pack needs, so the Visual Novel folder runs as soon as Divooka is installed.

Divooka Explore on Steam The examples on the wiki