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For context, visual novels are basically ~novella sized stories that come with visuals like static backgrounds + a few dozen renders per character. The character renders tend to be mostly the same, with small variations in facial expression, pose, maybe outfit. All that to say, you probably won't like VNs unless you like reading. Don't expect much gameplay / animation. That said, the more famous stories tend to have…
laughs in umineko and higurashi
If you're wondering what's up with the name, "Ren'Py" is a pun on the Japanese word "ren'ai" (恋愛), which means "romantic love".
As somebody who has read a large number of visual novels (VNs), I consider Ren'py one of the better engines as a consumer: - It has all the basic featured you'd expect, ranging from proper backlogs, to key bindings, and much more. You'd be shocked how many VN developers think that they can just pop out an VN engine themselves, and end up producing something that lacks even basic features. - It is performant. You'd be…
For context, visual novels are basically ~novella sized stories that come with visuals like static backgrounds + a few dozen renders per character. The character renders tend to be mostly the same, with small variations in facial expression, pose, maybe outfit. All that to say, you probably won't like VNs unless you like reading. Don't expect much gameplay / animation. That said, the more famous stories tend to have…
They have a database of over 4,000 visual novels built with this engine, but that barely scratches the surface. If you know where to look there are many thousands more projects built on this engine.
The Visual Novel Database (VNDB) alone lists nearly 12,000 titles that have used Ren'py: (Warning: This site contains a lot of text and images that are not safe for work. And it records a lot of works that many people will probably find distressing) https://vndb.org/v?q=&ch=&f=N1802fwRen_7Py-741&s=26y But as you say, that's barely scratching the surface. You can probably find many more on itch.io and in other communi…
For context, visual novels are basically ~novella sized stories that come with visuals like static backgrounds + a few dozen renders per character. The character renders tend to be mostly the same, with small variations in facial expression, pose, maybe outfit. All that to say, you probably won't like VNs unless you like reading. Don't expect much gameplay / animation. That said, the more famous stories tend to have…
> For context, visual novels are basically ~novella sized stories Usually, but some of them are infamously ludicrously long. Like 2-3x War and Peaces long.
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The Visual Novel Database (VNDB) alone lists nearly 12,000 titles that have used Ren'py: (Warning: This site contains a lot of text and images that are not safe for work. And it records a lot of works that many people will probably find distressing) https://vndb.org/v?q=&ch=&f=N1802fwRen_7Py-741&s=26y But as you say, that's barely scratching the surface. You can probably find many more on itch.io and in other communi…
That's weird, I don't think those old TypeMoon and Key visual novels used Ren'py. Maybe Ren'py is able to read files made for other engines like NScript or KiriKiri and that's why they show in the search?
But you can exclude those by only searching for official releases:
For context, visual novels are basically ~novella sized stories that come with visuals like static backgrounds + a few dozen renders per character. The character renders tend to be mostly the same, with small variations in facial expression, pose, maybe outfit. All that to say, you probably won't like VNs unless you like reading. Don't expect much gameplay / animation. That said, the more famous stories tend to have…
>~novella sized stories laughs in umineko and higurashi
For context, visual novels are basically ~novella sized stories that come with visuals like static backgrounds + a few dozen renders per character. The character renders tend to be mostly the same, with small variations in facial expression, pose, maybe outfit. All that to say, you probably won't like VNs unless you like reading. Don't expect much gameplay / animation. That said, the more famous stories tend to have…
> For context, visual novels are basically ~novella sized stories Usually, but some of them are infamously ludicrously long. Like 2-3x War and Peaces long.
Looks like the median renpy novel (with 100+ votes) takes 250min to complete with the ludicrously long ones [2] bringing the average up to 503min.
engine vn count avg 25% 50% 75%
Ren'Py 251 503 120 251 571
KiriKiri 187 813 241 522 1143
Unity 65 871 224 452 1109
[2] https://query.vndb.org/?sql=SELECT%0D%0Avn.title%2C%0D%0AROU...
title length (min) engine
HEAVEN BURNS RED 12580 CRIware
Rance X -Kessen- 11085 AliceSoft System4.X
Shoujo Settai 10418
Kamidori Alchemy Meister 8407
Seinarukana... 6858
Lessons in Love 6819 Ren'Py
Sengoku † Koihime... 6744 CatSystem2
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni 6626