Ahhhhhhh thank you so much! And thank you, thank you for playing! I'm really glad that the VN warmed your heart with love. <3
In regards to how long this took me, this was my passion project of two years. :)
And all those Ren'Py tricks were a combination of researching the Ren'Py cookbook/forums as well as putting a new spin on existing functionality. There was a lot of experimenting with the coding. ^^; Basically, I had 20+ tabs of Ren'Py documentation open at any given time LOL