Introduction to Flags | Advanced Documentation

Note: If your visual novel contains any explicit content (Hentai, Eroge, Yaoi, etc), please select mature. Failure to do so may result in deletion of your visual novel and a banned account.

This is NOT where you add characters for your game, this is for submitting free to use character art for other game creators to share their artwork with the community in the public resources gallery.

To add characters to your game project, go to your Dashboard, choose a project and click "Open Project," click on the library tab, and add characters there.

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This is NOT where you add backgrounds for your game, this is for submitting free to use background art for other game creators to share their artwork with the community in the public resources gallery.

To add backgrounds to your game project, go to your Dashboard, choose a project and click "Open Project," click on the library tab, and add images there.

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This is NOT where you add GUI for your game, this is for submitting free to use GUI for other game creators to share their artwork with the community in the public resources gallery.

To add GUI to your game project, go to your Dashboard, choose a project and click "Open Project," click on the library tab, and add GUI there.

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This is NOT where you add objects/item images for your game, this is for submitting free to use art for other game creators to share their artwork with the community in the public resources gallery.

To add objects/images to your game project, go to your Dashboard, choose a project and click "Open Project," click on the library tab, and add images there.

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I don't own this asset and I will give proper credits to the original owner

This is NOT where you add music/soundtracks for your game, this is for submitting free to use music/soundtracks for other game creators to share their music with the community in the public resources gallery.

To add music to your game project, go to your Dashboard, choose a project and click "Open Project," click on the library tab, and add sounds there.

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This is NOT where you add sound effects for your game, this is for submitting free to use sound effects for other game creators to share their sounds with the community in the public resources gallery.

To add sounds to your game project, go to your Dashboard, choose a project and click "Open Project," click on the library tab, and add sounds there.

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Note: If your dress up game contains any explicit content (Hentai, Eroge, Yaoi, etc), please select mature. Failure to do so may result in deletion of your visual novel and a banned account.

Features	Free	Premium
Scene map for organizing scenes and connecting your story
Flags or Point System: Keep track of simple statistics like love points, flagged triggers, etc.
Creating screens such as CG gallery or extra screens
Add collaborators to your visual novel project so multiple people can work on it at once
Cloud Storage: Directly upload files from your computer into your project	-
Video Files	-
Flag Folders: Organizing your flags into folders	-
Customizable Save Slots	-
Character Popularity Poll	-
Password Protection Feature	-

Features	Free	Premium
Pieces system for creating your character or avatar model
Creating screens such as character closet/wardrobe or other screen systems
Add collaborators to your dress-up game project so multiple people can work on it at once
Cloud Storage: Directly upload files from your computer into your project	-
Masking to hide certain shapes or "cutouts" of pieces or other assets	-
Special effects such as blurring or coloring filters	-
Sharing your saved images with online web community	-
Password Protection Feature	-

Uploading to Steam Collaborating Easily with CloudNovel Customizing Basic Game UI (GUI) for Visual Novel Creating a Simple Main Menu Introduction to Flags

Embedded Flag Code Designing a Custom Load Screen How to Create an Unlockable Image Gallery

Okay. Let’s talk about the flag.

First of all, you need to understand what is a flag? If you are an anime fan, I think you might be familiar with the term ‘raising the flag’. Like in One Piece, if Luffy said their journey is going to be smooth, he is raising a flag as right after he said that, they encountered a problem.

Copy pasting from a site called Techopedia, a flag is one or more data bits used to store binary values as specific program structure indicators. A flag is a component of a programming language's data structure.

Too technical for you?

Well, it is too technical for me. You do not have to mind it if you cannot understand it.

Flags in CloudNovel can be anything, honestly. It can be your criteria for conditions, it can be your data keeper or it can be just a feature to mess up with.

However, the flag is an unquestionably one of the most important elements in CloudNovel.

For this post, I will just briefly introduce you to the three types of flags.

Boolean
The boolean flag is the true/false flag. This type of flag is like a switch. It has only two options, True or False. On or Off. Yes or No. Exist or Not Exist.
It is only one or another. It never has the third option and will never be.

So, just like a switch, you can just either turn it on (true) or turn it off (false).

Integer
The integer flag is a flag with numbers. The value of this flag can either increases or decreases. Happy math-ing with this flag! However don’t worry, it will just use simple math such as adding(increasing) and subtracting(decreasing).

String
The third and last type of flags is the string flag. String flag is an alphanumeric flag. What is alphanumeric? Alpha is alphabet and numeric is number. That means you can use both letters and numbers for this flag. Normally use for the customizable name.

Additionally, you can also enable auto-save for any flags you have created. By auto-saving a flag, it will remember the value of the flag even after the player closes the site so the next time they come back, they will still retain their flag values which can be useful for game currency, CG Gallery and etc.

We will learn more about flags in future posts including:

How to Create a CG Gallery
How to Set Up Game Stats
How to Create Customizable Name

...and many more.