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RenPy
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Lessons from Open-Source Game Projects
Ren'Py - Visual Novel Engine. Python, Cython, C
- Ask HN: Software to Develop Interactive Stories?
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cRPG's often have poor writing. Why is that?
Here are 2 interactive story game engines: * https://www.renpy.org/ * https://twinery.org/
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Having an issue with custom credits menu
###################################################### Credits label credits(): $ credits_speed = 20 scene black show text '''{b}Blabla:{/b}\n\n{i}Me{/i}\n\n\n {b}Clacla:{/b}\n\n{i}You{/i}\n\n\n {b}Dladla:{/b}\n\n {i}He{/i}\n\n\n {b}Hlahla:{/b}\n\n{i}She{/i}\n\n\n {b}Brrr:{/b}\n\n{i}Grrr{/i}\n\n\n {b}Drrr:{/b}\n\n{i}Hrrr{/i}\n\n\n\n\n Made with {a=https://www.renpy.org/}Ren'Py{/a} v[renpy.version_only]\n\n\n{b}Ren'Py License:{/b}\n[renpy.license!t]''' at Move((0.5, 1.0), (0.5, -1.0), credits_speed, xanchor=0.5, yanchor=0) with Pause(credits_speed+4) return init screen about(): tag menu add "main_menu" use game_menu(_("Credits"), scroll="viewport"): style_prefix "about" fixed: xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5 viewport id "vp": draggable True mousewheel True has vbox: spacing 3 textbutton _("whattheheeeeellll") action Jump("credits") init -1 style about_label is gui_label init -1 style about_label_text is label_text init -1 style about_text is gui_text init -1 style about_label_text: size gui.label_text_size
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How would I make a visual novel on Mv?
You can also check https://www.renpy.org/
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Here are some screenshots from my recently finished visual novel about Fischl, "Wahn und Traum"! (incidentally free to play now and findable in the comments)
I can't speak for in-game stuff, but I encourage anyone who wants to to try making a visual novel! It's way easier than you'd think it is. The only tools I really used were Ren'Py (the engine), CSP and Paint.net (for the art), and KKT (for the models).
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Otome game companies to work for
If you want full creative control, I would suggest going your own way and making indie games. The visual novel engine, Ren'py, is free to use and fairly easy to learn. They have a lot of helpful resources including Lemmasoft Forums, which is a great place to ask questions and find talent such as artists (we found our sprite/CG artist, BG artist, and GUI artist here, along with one of our voice actors).
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Hello, using ChatGPT as a text base game. I have some questions.
Make your text game, but not "within ChatGPT". Instead, make a game. You could use Ren'Py or really anything.
- Startup Issue
- Best way to approach a matching mechanic?
GDevelop
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Gamedev.js Jam 2024 start and theme announcement!
5 × GDevelop Gold license for 12 months
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Advice on easy-to-learn game engines? Planning a marriage proposal year(s) in advance
https://gdevelop.io/ <- free, very easy
- Not only Unity...
- Unity: We Have Heard You
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Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of Open Source in Gaming
It's not as monolithic as you'd think. There are lots of engines out there but their communities aren't very vocal compared to Unity, Unreal, and especially Godot's community.
Take a look at: https://itch.io/game-development/engines/most-projects
And
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/the-generous-space-of-al...
If you look at both of these you'll see just how many engines there are and neither of these cover everything. There are plenty of engines popular in the Python community that no one outside of it are aware of. Such as Arcade [0], Python-Tcod [1], Ursina [2], UPBGE [3], and Panda3D [4]. But based on your description you'd really like https://gdevelop.io/. It embraces exactly what you're describing where you can build a game but just installing entire features others have made and put online into your game.
[0] Beginner friendly 2D library:
[1] Rougelike: https://python-tcod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[2] Beginner friendly 3D engine (built on Panda3D): https://www.ursinaengine.org/
[3] Blender Game Engine Fork: https://upbge.org/
[4] Highly flexible code first 3D engine: https://panda3d.org/
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Ask HN: Favorite Game Engine?
I'm not really a game maker, but would like to give a shout out to the fabulous https://gdevelop.io/
It has everything you need, is free and its VISUAL PROGRAMMING is fab...
- Herramientas y lenguajes para aprender a hacer videojuegos?
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Construct's New WebGPU Renderer
After they switched to a monthly/annual subscription fee with the release of construct 3, I pretty much threw in the towel and switched over to Gdevelop.
https://github.com/4ian/GDevelop
Open source, completely free, and I can run it as a native application on my computer versus a weird web app. The idea that my game is basically tied to a SaaS is just not OK for me.
- Suggestion for software please
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GDevelop desktop app won't update
gdevelop GitHub releases
What are some alternatives?
Pygame - 🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
ink - inkle's open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative.
Phaser - Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering. [Moved to: https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser]
defold - Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desktop, mobile and web games.
YarnSpinner - Yarn Spinner is a tool for building interactive dialogue in games!
stencyl-engine - Create Flash, HTML5, iOS, Android, and desktop games with no code with Stencyl. This is the source to Stencyl's Haxe-based engine.
Panda3D - Powerful, mature open-source cross-platform game engine for Python and C++, developed by Disney and CMU
scratch-www - Standalone web client for Scratch
Cocos2d - Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools utilized by millions of developers across the globe. Its core has evolved to serve as the foundation for Cocos Creator 1.x & 2.x.
tiled - Flexible level editor