Hello! I literally just downloaded Construct 2, so I'm 120% new to this. I've always wanted to make my own game and decided I wanted to play around with a game engine and make a dumb dating sim to start with lol. I'm an experienced pixel artist of 11 years but don't have a lot of programming knowledge, which is why construct appealed a lot to me. I can't currently afford Construct 3, so I got the free Construct 2 version (which I read a lot of people seemed to prefer anyway?)

Anyway, I just wanted to know if anyone has any tips or anything for making a visual novel/2D top-down combo game? My idea is a LoZ:LttP view/world with a visual novel twist. Like you can walk around and stuff but maybe entering certain rooms makes it a visual novel-esque game? I'm not sure yet, but something like that is what I'm hoping for. This will be my first game so I know it won't be perfect. I just wanted to play around with game development on my own for a change :3

Hello! I'm new to Construct and the forums, but I'm not new to pixel art. I've been a pixel artist for over 10 years, mostly making character sprites, icons, and large pixel pieces as well as pixel animations. You can see a lot of my recent work on my twitter here: twitter.com/8TheKat

A lot of my sprite works have been made for a game I've been working for for about 10 years now. If anyone would like to see examples of those feel free to message me on my Twitter or you can email me at 8thekatartamz@gmail.com.

A few examples of my work: