This is not a guide about teaching you python nor is it about familiarizing you with the renpy api. These are things you are going to have to learn on your own. I'm sorry, but if I tried to this guide would be far longer than I could ever hope to make.

Here are some helpful links to get you started though. (My last attempt at making this guide got flagged so i'm playing it extra safe. Just type these key words into firefox or google and you should be good)

Python beginners guide
W3Schools Python

Renpy Documentation

Lastly, you will want to install code editors like VScode, Atom or even sublime text. Up to you. (You could just use notepad but please don't) And maybe python. Don't think its required though.

Now that that's out of the way...

Make your way to the IWHTG files. You can do this quickly by











Once inside you will see a text file called README.Its a bit dated but I advise you to give it a quick read.

If you feel confident in starting on your own after reading the README, then feel free to part ways with the guide here. If you are still a little lost don't worry! That's why i'm still here.

Basically modding structure goes like this.

You start with creating your own folder and naming it whatever you want your mod name to be.



After that what you will want to do is create two folders and one text documents.
First folder will be called "assets_folder" second will be called "script_folder".
The text document will be "(whatever text here)_storyline".



In the example above I put an abbreviated version of my mod title as the text before the underscore.

Now lets head into the assets folder and set some stuff up real quick.

• Create a folder called "images"
  
• In the newly created images folder create a couple more folders and name the first one backgrounds
  
• The second one characters
  
• And the last one doodles

Keep in mind how these files are structured. We will come back to this later.

We are almost done setting up our mod. Yipee! Now onto setting up INIT. What you will want to do is go back to the root of your mod folder and open the text document you created.

The template in the README is a bit dated. It was made more for snoot game rather than IWHTG so I cobbled together a quick template just to get us started.


Now save the document as a .rpy file.



When you open the new .rpy file it should look something like this...(I have a ♥♥♥♥ ton of errors due to some vscode issue. to lazy to fix sorry)



And just like that our mod will now show up in the mods tab. Hooray! Now lets start editing the new storyline file. (you can delete the original text file if you want.)

If you want to change what name the mod will show up as. Change the "Mod name" To whatever you want. If you want to customize the Label you have to change both instances of the "mod_storyline" in the script.



And that's it! You just setup your first mod! Now there is a lot more that goes into making actual content. But I just cant go over all of it in one sitting(I could but I have other stuff to do). I will give you pointers though on figuring out just what is possible with IWHTG!

Here I will be showing you where you can learn about how to further customize your mod. And wouldn't you know it everything you need is right in the games directory! Lets take a look on how the Wani's game folder is files are structured...









Well wouldn't you know it! We have the exact same three folders in our images folder!



Basically, just copy the file structure of the game itself! And you should be good. This can be extended to most of the folders in the Wani's game folder. Audio, gui, 00src and images. All of these folders could probably by copied and pasted into your own assets_folder if you would really wanted to. Just make sure to remove any of the content you don't need.

Now for scripts. All I can advise you to do is read them. See how the devs themselves made their scenes and learn from them. See how they are connected to each other. A good place to start looking is the "storyline" and "script" .rpy files in the game folder.

Now that you know the bare minimum. Here's a hour long video going over everything I said!(Had no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idea this tutorial existed until now. Spent a couple hours of figuring out how to mod for nothingggg)


Its for snoot game but it is pretty much the same.

Anyways, hope I did a good enough job at teaching you how to at least get started with modding this awesome game. This is my first guide so its probably awful to look at. Feel free to list all your criticisms. No promises on fixing the guide right away though...

Where you go to publish these mods is up to you. Now go mod this game to hell and back. Bring me more content to consume.