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Art Challenge (7/17/18): Create a Vampire

In celebration of CloudNovel’s 3rd birthday’s Cafe Rouge Week our next art challenge is…. VAMPIRE/CREATURE OF THE NIGHT WEEK Create yourself or your OC as a VAMPIRE or CREATURE OF THE NIGHT! We want you to draw your character (or yourself) with FANGS & BLOOD! Here are the rules it MUST have 1. ONLY IF…
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Name this Neko (Kuro Girl)

FEMALE BLACK CAT CHARACTER Choose a name and personality survey Hey guys, it’s me, Sonya! 😉 Today we are releasing our black girl CloudNeko character, please take this survey to choose a name and personality for this cat character: Take this Survey Remember to tell us your username, we will pick a winner of the…
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Name this Neko (Shiro Girl)

FEMALE WHITE CAT CHARACTER Choose a name and personality survey Hey guys, it’s me, Sonya! 😉 Today we are releasing our first CloudNeko character, please take this survey to choose a name and personality for this cat character: Take this Survey Remember to tell us your username, we will pick a winner of the best…
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Art Challenge (7/9/18): Create a Nekomimi

In celebration of CloudNovel’s 3rd birthday’s Neko Week our next art challenge is…. NEKOMIMI (CAT HUMANOID) WEEK Create yourself or your OC as a NEKOMIMI (cat humanoid)! We want you to draw your character (or yourself) with cat ears and a cat tail! Here are the rules it MUST have 1. Your character must have…
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Art Challenge (7/2/18): Create a Magical Girl

In celebration of CloudNovel’s Magical girl mascot “Princess Sonya” our next art challenge is…. MAGICAL GIRL WEEK Create yourself or your OC as a magical girl! That’s right, we want you to design your character or draw yourself in your own magical girl design. What powers would they have? What kind of magic weapon or…
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Story of CloudNovel (So far)

It was never my intention to make a visual novel engine. If you asked me how I ended up making CloudNovel then we have to go way back in 2012 I was 19 years old and I had an idea for a visual novel called Cafe Rouge. It was a story about a vampire cafe…
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New Logo and Mascot

  MASCOT OF CLOUDNOVEL Introducing Princess Sonya We are proud to present our official mascot character of CloudNovel: Princess Sonya Thanks for reading this comic strip! As thanks for opening this email, here is a code for 750 points (please use it to purchase Princess Sonya from the premium resources store, she costs exactly 750 points): PrincessSonyaLovesYou*w* Click…
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How to Prepare Your Assets So Your You Don’t Go – Oh No! – When It Takes Forever to Load

CloudNovel supports all sizes of projects, tiny, small to big. Some of the biggest games out there have hundreds of megabytes in assets. Very often authors just add images, sprites, audio and then complain when their game is slow or impossible to load. Here’s how to escape the pain of having to fix their assets…
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How to Develop Your Story In 10 Easy Steps (Part Two)

Snowflake method is easy way to break the huge job of writing a novel into small manageable chunks. It’s actually so easy that you can try it out playfully, just for the lulz. Yea, you can thank me later. Take one of the ideas off the shelf and let’s do it! If you missed the…
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