Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine (not made by me)

[kaboth 6]

Ren'Py is a free and cross-platform engine that helps you make story-based games. These include:

 

* Visual Novels, computer-based stories presented using words, pictures, sounds and music. Ren'Py's script language makes writing visual novels easy and efficient, allowing visual novels to be made without needing a dedicated programmer.

 

*Simulation Games, such as dating and management sims, can be written using Ren'Py's support for embedded Python. Ren'Py takes care of details like persistence and efficient rendering, letting the programmer focus on the game's user interface and logic. The same Ren'Py script language that makes writing visual novels easy makes it easy to include story segments inside your simulation game.

 

Ren'Py can be extended using user-defined displayables to support a wide variety of gameplay. Ren'Py should be suitable for any 2D story-centric game.

 

Ren'Py is free to use with commercial and non-commercial games. While Ren'Py and the libraries it depends on are all open source, they are licensed in ways that let you choose if your game will be open-source or closed-source. There is no need to pay a fee to us or anyone else* to distribute your Ren'Py game. Ren'Py has already been used with a half-dozen commercial games, and more are on the way.

 

See the Ren'Py license for more details.

 

Of course, if you make money off of a Ren'Py game and feel like supporting further development, a donation would be nice.

 

* Unless you use mpeg or mp3 support, in which case you're responsible for paying for the patent license. We don't recommend using these formats in commercial games.

 

One of Ren'Py's biggest advantages is that it is cross platform. There are three primary platforms we support:

 

* Windows 2000+ (x86)

* Mac OS X 10.4+ (x86 and ppc)

* Linux (x86, glibc 2.3+)

 

The Ren'Py launcher makes it possible to build versions of Ren'Py games for all three platforms from any of these three platforms, making it possible to develop (for example) Mac and Linux versions on Windows.

 

Another advantage is that Ren'Py games are not dependent on any other software on these platforms. There's no need for your users to download runtimes, drivers, codecs, or anything like that. If a user has one of the supported platforms, Ren'Py will run.

 

Ren'Py can also be made to run on other platforms that support pygame, provided they have a reasonable amount of memory.

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More Info Here: http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/Why_Ren%27Py%3F

 

Home Page: http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/Home_Page

 

 

enjoy...

 

 

 

kaboth (a.k.a. Ic3ByTE)

[nanou-gr 5]

sounds interesting. but do you actually need to know programing to use it? (sorry if the question is stupid, i just have no clue about this part of the games...:P:)

[Broken Messiah 20]

I'ved used this program and its good, but you need to know python use it effectively.

[Crym 10]

Oh, I have some experience with Python from where I was using it in conjunction with Blender. I never really got very far and it wasn't a good experience but it was till an experience. I may have to check out this program later. Nice find, and are those screen shots from a dating sim? Yeah yeah, I have no life, dating sim's can be fun.

[Broken Messiah 20]

Blender is cool but really complicated lol I was just telling a friend about it :shifty:

[Crym 10]

Blender is cool but really complicated lol I was just telling a friend about it :shifty:

I love Blender but really I prefer 3DS Max or Maya, hm, might be a good idea to get back on topic now.

 

Since this program is open source I'll definitely give it a try. I love open source software which is why my desktops are Linux.

[kaboth 6]

Hope you guys enjoy it.. ;b

[nanou-gr 5]

maya... i never got far with it...:( too bad i had noone to teach me...:( well, if it wants all that, it's not for me.. . :( i guess i'm more of an artist than of a programmer...:)

[Arkbennett 16]

This looks awesome!

Gal games? I think yes!! <3 <3

[Wyzrd 12]

WE COULD MAKE OUR GAME ARK!!!!! You me and Tommy!!!!! HAHA

[kaboth 6]

nanou-gr, they have tutorials on the site if you want to use the program it doesn't seem that hard, heck I might make another game just like Nocturnal Illusion ;b, and you might be able to make a game like Pheonix Wright, I think... anyway it's a great program.

Edited December 10, 2010 by kaboth

[Broken Messiah 20]

There is a program dedicated just for ace attorney, but I forgot what it was.