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Creator of the Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine. DM me if you need to, but send a public message to

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Happy Halloween - and Happy Patreon day. Today's post is an article covering October 2022, and how to get Speech Bubble support going. patreon.com/posts/renpy-de

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Oct 31

For the record - I wasn't actually working on that light novel. But thanks to everyone who egged me on.

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Oct 30

(I'll stop now. Or at least put any other 'chapters' in a thread people can mute, so as not to annoy you too much. Back to the compiler mines.)

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Oct 30

"Good thing _I'm_ here." The Princess Louise steps to Dan's side, the gilded pen she uses to ink her art resplendent in her hand. She's been part of Dan's team since his first book - and now, she doesn't mind if all of Londonium knows it.

"There's only one way to settle this... a write-off!" The words are those of Queen Victoriana, but Charlene smirks as she hears them. She knows he's part of a team with his artist - without her, Dan will have half of a light novel.

"Your writing is on fire." Stefanie says. "I know." Says Dan - confident in the cheat skills given to him by the Goddess. "No - the manuscript! It's smoldering!" The publisher declares, reaching for a blanket to put it out. She knows this has to be Charlene's doing.

Charlene Dickens stews, from the top of the mansion she bought with the proceeds of her writing. The blonde plays with her ringtail hair as she ponders: Who is this Dan Phaeton? And why is he outselling Martin Chuzzlewit?

"It's time to _write_." Dan says, his trenchcoat glowing with a blue outline as he summons two typewriters into existence. One for each hand - his cheat powers make him more than capable of dual wielding.

"I don't understand", said Stefanie, her bosom barely contained in the strict Victorian top she wears. "Why would a novel sell better if it has pictures of onsens in Feudal Japan?"

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Stefan Gagne

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Oct 30

Replying to @renpytom

Okay so RenPy is great and all but I feel completing this novel is the Lord's work

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Oct 30

"Dan Phaeton looks out over the city - the coal smoke reminiscent of Victorian London, save for the way trolleys hover through the air. The city is in many ways the same, many ways different - but he knows that light novels don't exist yet."

Should I work on my light novel, "Writing Isekai Stories in Another World"? Or the Ren'Py 8 web port?

Bad light novel.
59.1%
Solid web port.
40.9%

291 votesFinal results

Just to clarify, I meant - more or less - that there's a lot of work that goes into actually making the builds of Ren'Py, moreso that the games that run it. A build of 7.6/8.1 takes about 51 GB of disk space.

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Oct 30

Some days, I think Ren'Py is a cross-platform build system that also plays visual novels.

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Oct 24

Python 3.11 is out, hooray! Congrats to everyone who worked on this, especially

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💙💛 who was the release manager and thanks in advance to

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for taking the reins for the next release! 🥳

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Oct 21

Ren'Py stuff I've been working on lately: * An interactive speech bubble editor. * Getting Ren'Py 8 running in the browser. * Fixes to things people report. After a lingering cold, feeling good.

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Sep 30

It's Patreon day again, and this month's article talks about what's being added to Ren'Py 8.1 (and 7.6) to support a kind of visual novel Ren'Py didn't support well until now. patreon.com/posts/renpy-de

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Sep 26

Watching the DART (Double Asteroid Redirect Test) mission, at: youtube.com/watch?v=yrxPT8 But also watching: youtube.com/watch?v=EkM88G

Useful tricks for Ren'Py VNs: If you hit V you activate Ren'Py's self-voicing, which reads the script out loud for you. S takes a screenshot and puts it in the VN's folder. No annoying snipping tool or phone camera picture of your screen needed!

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Sep 14

I ran Ren'Py natively on my M1 mac for the first time today. There's still a bit to do, as I'll be combining x86_64 and arm64 into a universal binary, but it runs.

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Sep 11

Ren'Py 8.0.3 and 7.5.3 have been released. These releases upgrade the targeted Android version, give more control over how pauses and timers interact with modal screens, and add Ukrainian translations of the Tutorial and The Question. renpy.org

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Sep 7

The Ren'Py 8.0.3 and 7.5.3 prereleases have been update. Read all about it. Thanks to everyone who tests. lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtop

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Sep 6

It looks like itch.io had the misfortune of having their TLS certificate expire on a holiday.

I updated the 8.0.3 / 7.5.3 prerelease. lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtop Note that I changed how the new modal property of pause and timer work - 'modal True' means respect modalness, 'modal False' means to ignore it.

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Aug 31

I've also made prereleases of Ren'Py 8.0.3 and 7.5.3, which you can find at renpy.org. The big change is that we target Android 13 which is past the current Google Play requirement.

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Aug 31

It's Patreon day again, and with that an article covering the development that happened in August 2022. patreon.com/posts/renpy-de

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Aug 27

Github Copilot knows the deal.

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Aug 18

You've heard of Ren'Py. But have you heard of _ren.py ? Probably not, I just added a first go at it.

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Aug 14

You can always find out what's new in the changelog: renpy.org/doc/html/chang

I've released Ren'Py 8.0.2 and Ren'Py 7.5.2. These releases are intended a pure fix releases, addressing reported issues in Ren'Py 8.0.1 and 7.5.1. renpy.org/release/8.0.2 renpy.org/release/7.5.2

I've updated the prereleases of Ren'Py 8.0.2 and 7.5.2, with a few more fixes. You can grab them from renpy.org. Unless something odd happens, I'll likely promote these to releases tomorrow.

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Aug 8

I've made the first prerelease of Ren'Py 8.0.2 and 7.5.2. These releases fix multiple (mostly minor) issues with Ren'Py 8.0.1 and 7.5.1, respectively. lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtop All testing is appreciated.

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Jul 31

This month's Patreon article covers Ren'Py 8.0.1, 8.0.2, and 8.1. patreon.com/posts/renpy-de (The Star Trek themed image comes from this month's postcard, because of the influence it had on me growing up.)

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Jul 31

Nichelle Nichols passed away. If you haven't heard her story of how Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced her to remain on Star Trek, it's a good one. youtube.com/watch?v=pSq_UI After this, she went on to help recruit a diverse group astronauts for NASA, in the 1970s.

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Nichelle Nichols discusses how Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was a fan of Star Trek and convinced her to remain on the series.More at http://emmytvlegends...

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Jul 29

The buried lede is that "The Upper Peninsula of Michigan Ventilator Sales and Marketing Awards" has a "Best New Game" category.

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Jul 28

We want to make sure our guidelines are as clear as possible around what should and shouldn't be presented on graphical assets, so today we're introducing a new set of rules that will go into effect Sept 1. Read the full post here: store.steampowered.com/news/group/414

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today's Ren'Py trick that maybe you don't know (I didn't know until a few months ago). If you're playtesting your game and press shift+E, it will open your editor at the current line of the script. Useful if you're scripting the game and forgot where you are :)

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Jul 9

Both

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and I are pleased to announce that #O2A2VNJam returns again this year! The jam officially starts on the 24th July, so get your thinking caps on and aim to make a VN with Only One of Any Asset! itch.io/jam/o2a2-2022 Art by

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I'd also like to announce the release of Ren'Py 7.5.1, which contains the same updates for the Python 2-based Ren'Py 7. renpy.org/release/7.5.1

I'd like to announce the release of Ren'Py 8.0.1. The main focus of this release was to resolve issues reported in Ren'Py 8.0.0. This release also includes a new Ukrainian translation of the launcher. renpy.org/release/8.0.1

I've made prereleases of Ren'Py 8.0.1 and Ren'Py 7.5.1. These mostly fix issues, including one with updating from 7.4. Both also include a new Ukrainian translation of the Ren'Py launcher. lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtop

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Jul 3

2022-06-26: Ren'Py 8 "Heck freezes over" is released to the world. 2022-07-01: Macross is coming to the US, something that we all know would only happen when hell freezes over. I don't think I can take credit, but the timing is sure suspicious.