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gb-studio
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pyglet
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Cocos2d
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Panda3D
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- The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
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A Beginner's Guide to Learning Ren'Py and Creating Your First Visual Novel
Ren'Py is a free and open-source engine that simplifies visual novel development. Whether you're an aspiring writer, artist, or programmer, Ren'Py provides all the tools you need to create professional-quality visual novels without requiring extensive technical knowledge.
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Building an educational game with AI tools and Azure Static Web Apps (Part 1)
Since Python is my go-to language, I was naturally drawn to Ren'Py, a visual novel engine built on Python. It met all my requirements, offering an easy-to-use scripting language for writing the story, defining quizzes, and customizing the UI. It also provides the flexibility to extend its built-in functionality using Python and export the game to desktop, mobile, and web platforms. Additionally, the availability of the Ren'Py Command Line Interface (CLI) allowed me to automate the process of building and deploying the game.
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Anime Is Eating the World
So many things are wrong with this article but I’ll start with Haruhi Suzumiya being a ‘light novel’ (a novel printed in large text as if for seniors with a few illustrations) as opposed to a ‘visual novel’ (something you would make with https://www.renpy.org/)
It is hard to know because financials aren’t public but it’s not clear to me that Crunchyroll has really addressed the commercial provlems anime had in western markets. In the VHS era there was a fight over subtitles vs dubs which was acute because you could not put multiple content tracks on the media, in the DVD age you could.
More fundamentally, dubs cost a lot of money in comparison with subs and were always terrible until the people who made those terrible dubs gained experience and some of them got good. At the time people though subs had a limited market but now subprime anime (and sometimes good anime) gets shoveled onto Tubi and people watch it —- today we’re in the habit of watching movies with subtitles because you can’t make out the dialog on half of the new Hollywood movies anyway.
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Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?
Many great suggestions in this thread. Some that I didn't spot:
Lua isn't tough to pick up given you already know JS and Python. It's a bit of a weird hybrid of the two in its own unique ways. If show that you are learning it with you child, sometimes that can be a great experience. Löve2D can be a fun, very self-contained sandbox: https://www.love2d.org/
On the Python side, Ren'Py can be a great place to start. Visual Novels may not be half as popular outside of Japan, but Visual Novel-like conversations are everywhere in modern games and you can start with easy to script "Choose Your Own Adventure" Visual Novel conventions and expand to a wide range of genres from RPGs to "life sims" to some form of turn-based strategy games easily from there (and just about anything with more work). Ren'Py starts from its own relatively simple conversation-focused scripting language with Python-like conditions, and then allows you to expand towards custom Python code as you get familiar with it. https://www.renpy.org/
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When did you Really get the Hang of Programming?
..and even more recently, I truly felt like I got a hang on something when I made my first ever visual novel with Sublime and Ren'Py!
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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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