In that way having 80+ characters isn't a huge problem if you have the time and the will to finish all of them. The good thing about animating expressions with sprites is that making a template that includes all of them will let you simply colour the characters over it and have a complete page of animations for that person. Just look at games like Final Fantasy 5 or 6- the characters jump and bounce around, wave their arms heavily, spin, and laugh with their entire body. Something to keep in mind is that sprites don't necessarily have to express themselves like normal people.

If you're clever enough you can work outside of the boundaries of a limited size. It's also largely dependent on your skill as a spriter, or the skill of the person you hire. A bigger, more realistically built sprite will probably be able to pull of tons more actions than a smaller one. The ability of sprites to express themselves is entirely dependent on the size and anatomy of the sprite. So, I was thinking to change to VX Ace for this project, and get rid of all the facesets, and let the sprites do the job, but because of it being a linear I really want the sprites to express in a realistic way, so how much do the sprites can express themselves? and how much will change having to do a cast of around 80 characters drawings to sprites? A kind of rage quit So the the things that renpy offers me wouldn't be used too much due the huge amount of work. What I would achieve is more or less the quality of a faceset of an rpgmaker game which are static faces. But with the huge cast it will be impossible for one person to make all the expressions, clothes, and stuff in a decent quality. What renpy gives me, is a pretty simple and organized way to write dialogues and display everything, but, as it is an engine for -Visual- Novels, it mostly demands it to look good (yes, I know, there is Higurashi and Umineko, which I consider great VN).

So I am choosing whether I buy VX Ace, or Use renpy. So the project is still on ideas and story planning. The project is only storytelling completely linear, no gameplay, but it has a lot of character. Well, I am currently planning a big project, but as big project, it means that if I choose wrong I might end quiting.

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