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From Ren'Py
The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
There have been more than 110 games made with Ren'Py.
The best way to see Ren'Py in action is to download some of them.
Senior Year was the first fully voiced Ren'Py game.
Magical Boutique was the first Ren'Py-based Sim-game, demonstrating the power behind a python-based engine.
Ren'Py is a free engine that helps you make visual novels and dating sims, computer-based stories involving words, pictures, and sounds. Its script language makes creating visual novels easy and efficient, while advanced creators can customize and extend it using Python. Every Ren'Py game supports all the navigation and interface features players expect, allowing the creator to focus on telling his or her story. Ren'Py is open source, and is free to use with commercial and non-commercial games under any license. Ren'Py games run on 
Windows 2000+, 
Mac OS X 10.4+, and 
Linux x86 without requiring any other software, making them accessible to a wide variety of players.
Download Ren'Py
- Ren'Py 6.7.1 "Apple Juice" is the latest stable version, released on September 28, 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 recipies 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.
- 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.
