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From Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
There have been hundreds of visual novels and simulation games made using Ren'Py. See them all at games.renpy.org.
RenAi Blogger shows how the in-game interface can be customized.
Elven Relations was the first Ren'Py game to integrate a battle minigame as often found in Role Playing Games.
Ren'Py supports NVL-style games.
Ren'Py is a free and cross-platform visual novel engine that helps you use words, pictures, and sounds to tell stories with the computer. Its easy and efficient script language makes it possible for non-programmers to make visual novels, while its Python support allows for complex simulation games.
Download Ren'Py
- Stable: Ren'Py 6.11.0 "It Goes to Eleven" (August 19, 2010)
Documentation & Code
- The Quickstart Manual teaches you how to make your first visual novel.
- The FAQ answers common questions.
- Tutorials teach how to make games.
- Translations into other languages.
- Cookbook recipes for common tasks.
- Frameworks help make more complex games.
- The new manual explains how to use Ren'Py, but isn't finished yet.
- The Reference Manual contains the rest of the documentation.
Support & Development
- The Ren'Py Section of the Lemma Soft Forums are the place to post support questions.
- Our bug tracker is for bugs in Ren'Py.
- Launchpad is our project management site.
- Our IRC channel is #renpy on irc.freenode.net.
- Contact us privately if you have questions that are inappropriate for a public forum.
The English-Language Visual Novel Community Wiki is a good place to start when looking for resources (character art, background art, music, fonts, etc.) to use in your game.
