Electron vs Unity vs RenPy for Visual Novel

• YarnSpinner

  41 2,212 8.2 C#

  Yarn Spinner is a tool for building interactive dialogue in games!

  

We used yarn with Unity when making a VN for a game jam. It worked well--it has a decent level of support for Unity already, and as /u/ziptofaf has said having the ability to do things other than pure VN is useful. The extra work was not much--took a few hours to get the basic text components and UI designs set up, and then you just made a prefab and swapped your yarn scripts in and out. Yarn also natively supports variables (including variables not in the game--you can link up your point-and-click easter egg or your OnTrigger script for when the player makes it to a location) and branching selection, so it's easy to hop back and forth

• ink

  164 3,889 0.0 C#

  inkle's open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative. (by inkle)

  

Personally I'm more partial to Ink than yarn, but I wouldn't say it's "better", just another option to know about too.

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• dialogic

  59 3,224 9.4 GDScript

  💬 Create Dialogs, Visual Novels, RPGs, and manage Characters with Godot to create your Game!

  

Agree with most people here that RenPy is the best option, but if you decide to go the Godot route I made a plugin to make dialogs (like in visual novels) that it is very user friendly: https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic

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