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From Ren'Py
The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
Welcome to the Ren'Py home page. Ren'Py is an engine that supports the creation of visual novels and dating sims, forms of computer-mediated storytelling. It supports a movie script-like syntax that makes creating simple games easy, while still being customizable and extensible by advanced creators. With no additional work by the game-maker, it supports features expected of all visual novels, like loading, saving, preferences, and rollback. Ren'Py is supported on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux x86, and can be made to run on other platforms.
Ren'Py is open-source software, and is free to use for commercial and non-commercial purposes. It does not require you to open-source your game. Please read the Ren'Py license for more details.
There have been more than 110 games made with Ren'Py.
The best way to see Ren'Py in action is to download some of them.
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Download
The latest version is Ren'Py 6.6.2 "But I Get Up Again", which was released on May 14, 2008. Please see the Download Ren'Py page for other versions, or view information about running Ren'Py on Windows Vista, Mac OS X 10.4+, Linux x86, and other platforms.
Documentation
This website contains documentation about Ren'Py, including:
- Tutorials explaining how to get started with creating Ren'Py games.
- A Cookbook explaining how to accomplish specific tasks.
- The Reference Manual, an authoritative (if complex) manual describing Ren'Py.
The documentation is always a work in progress, so feel free to help improve it.
Contact Us
The best place to ask questions about Ren'Py is on the Ren'Py board at the Lemma Soft forums. If that's inappropriate, we have a page with contact information.
