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The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
There have been more than 120 games made with Ren'Py.
The best way to see Ren'Py in action is to download some of them.
Songs of Araiah uses a custom text window and click-to-continue indicator.
Ori, Ochi, Onoe. shows how completely the look of Ren'Py can be customized.
Ren'Py is a free and cross-platform 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 complicated simulation games.
Download Ren'Py
- Ren'Py 6.8.1 "Heroic Hexameter" is the latest stable version, released on December 1, 2008.
- Older versions are also available.
- New releases are announced on our twitter feed, which can be subscribed to in several ways.
Documentation & Code
- The Quickstart Manual shows how to make a simple game, and is the best place to start.
- Tutorials are aimed at teaching everyone how to make games.
- Cookbook recipes provide boilerplate code for common tasks.
- Frameworks help experienced programmers make more complex games.
- Translations of the Ren'Py interface exist for several languages.
- The Reference Manual is an authoritative (if complex) manual describing Ren'Py.
The documentation is always a work in progress, so feel free to help improve it. (Once logged in, anyone can edit it.)
Support
- The Lemma Soft Forums are the focal point of the English-language visual novel making community. Please post Ren'Py questions into the Ren'Py section.
- Our IRC channel is #renpy on irc.freenode.net.
- Contact us privately if you have questions that are inappropriate for a public forum.
Although not Ren'Py-specific, the OELVN Community Wiki is a good place to start when looking for resources (character art, background art, music, fonts, etc.) to use in your game.
