Ren'Py

Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine is a free engine for the creation of software, for example, from text adventures, stories, presentations and animated illustrations.

The origin of the software is in the English manga community and was designed with the idea to design Adventures Japanese style with simple means and the proportion of programming to minimize greatly in the preparation. Ren'Py is an open source software has become a reference engine, in which measure other programs with a similar focus in ihreren skills. With Ren'Py so far over 600 games were largely created platform. Based on his manga friendly subculture other languages ​​and styles are increasingly being used and to the tenth anniversary of the program in 2014 around, are also found on large commercial gaming platforms like Steam or Desura, a growing number of Ren'Py games and stories. Commercial use is then transported through the open MIT license.

With the program you choose will be entered into a text editor with simple stage directions. Besides their own instructions - for example, the animation of images - can be Ren'Py programs with the Python programming language to expand.

Word origin

Ren'Py is a portmanteau word that was combined from " Ren'ai " and " Python ". Thus, referring to the genre of adventure or Ren'ai Ren'ai simulations. In " Visual Novels " it also is an English word that in this genre, the combination of text and image stresses and is generally used as a term outside of Japan for Japanese adventure of this type.

Functions

Ren'Py offers first from the beginning to a backbone for settings such as sound, graphics, etc. to be stored Scores base area are also the representations of graphs and branching options / menus. For the animation of graphics, such as images of nature, can be its own command language " ATL " (Animation and Transformation Language) use, which greatly simplifies these functions and makes it easier to read and apply.

Ren'Py also supports almost all the functions that are for a visual novel of importance, without being tied to this genre. Including different text representations, synchronization, rewind to previous points in a story, a variety of image transitions and more. Ren'Py scripts have a script like syntax and can additionally contain elements from the Python code, which allow the user to implement custom functions.

Multimedia capabilities are made ​​possible internally using Pygame. The Python programming language provides a powerful expansion option of the scripts. It supports Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (also included in some distributions ) and Android systems such as the Ouya console.

Known Ren'Py games

  • Always Remember Me ( commercial)
  • Bionic Heart ( Commercial)
  • Café 0 ~ The Drowned Mermaid ~ (commercial, also available in German )
  • Date Warp ( commercial)
  • Digital: A Love Story
  • Do not take it personally, babe, it just Is not your story
  • Fantasia, The Realm of Thanos / Fantasia Requiem of The Abyss
  • Felix, Gaijin (First German -language Ren'Py game of 2007)
  • Frozen Essence
  • Jisei series ( commercial)
  • Katawa Shoujo (Act 1V5 ( Demo) also available in German, full version for Z. English only)
  • Moonlight Walks 2.0 ( one of the first Ren'Py games by the author PyTom itself)
  • Ori, Ochi, Onoe
  • Planet Stronghold ( commercial)
  • RE: Alistair (also available in German )
  • Sleepless Night (also available in German )
  • (Also available in German ) This Is Where I Want To Die
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