This month's article is now up, covering the completion of renpy-build and some changes and improvement to iOS support. It also includes a method that allows multiple functions to be called by a callback that wasn't intended for multiple functions.
Sta...
2020-03-31 17:06:12 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's Ren'Py development update covers many of the Ren'Py-related things I've done this month, like working on the renpy-build project and Ren'Py proper, as well as judging a Ren'Py game jam held at my alma mater. It also includes a feature requested by a b...
2020-02-29 22:16:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's article is a Ren'Py development update, with most of the progress made this month being on renpy-build. I also virtually attended Visual;Conference, the online visual novel development conference. Inspired by one of the talks in the conference, I've w...
2020-01-31 20:10:53 +0000 UTC View Post
For this month's article, I look back - both to the past decade, a decade in which Visual Novels have gone from virtually unknown in the West to an accepted genre, and to the last month in which Ren'Py development has been going strong. And then I look forward - t...
2019-12-31 23:02:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, we have the first of a new kind of sponsor article. In this series, I’m going to try to focus on Ren’Py development, and the topics that come naturally each month as I create and support Ren’Py.
The reason for this change is that over the two and a half years that I’ve been writing these articles, I’ve tried to come o...
2019-11-30 17:48:07 +0000 UTC View Post
A couple of months ago, I received a request from a sponsor who wanted to see if there was a way for Ren’Py to indicate a player’s progress through a visual novel, both through the VN as a whole and through a single chapter inside it.
This turned out to be a harder problem than I thought it would be, but after an attempt last month tha...
2019-10-31 22:29:44 +0000 UTC View PostI'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.3.5, the latest in a series of releases that continue to maintain Ren'Py 7.3. This release fixes the compilation of iOS projects, and adds a button that accesses the audio directory to the launcher.
As there have been quite a few changes since Ren'Py 7.3 was originally released, please check out the chang...
2019-10-18 05:23:01 +0000 UTC View PostI'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.3.4, a further patch to Ren'Py 7.3. This fixes two major graphical glitches, and also adds the ability to pass "[prefix_]" to image names everywhere, rather than only in styles. The graphical issues are pretty major and can manifest in reasonable circumstances, so I recommend everyone upgrade from 7.3.3 to 7.3.4.
I'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.3.3. This release is intended to improve performance and compatibility, fix bugs, and make available minor features that have been added since Ren'Py 7.3.2 was released.
Some highlights are:
The newest version of macOS, 10.15 Catalina, will require your games to be notarized by Apple before running. Because of this, game stores such as 2019-09-27 22:01:53 +0000 UTC View Post
While most of my Patreon articles talk about how to take advantage of some of the newest features of Ren’Py, this month’s article is a bit different. I chose three very old features (ones that are almost fifteen years old at this point), and explain how ...
2019-08-30 05:28:14 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I'm back from my Animefest panel, and I thought I would share some of the new features I demoed there with my sponsors. Some of the things that will be added over the next few feature releases:
* Ren'Py is moving from using 2D rectangles to 3D models, internally. While Ren'Py is still intended to make visual novels with 2D art, c...
2019-08-18 22:30:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's article comes from a suggestion for a sponsor for a system that checks for changes in variables, and displays messages when something changes. The article covers both how I developed the system, and how to use it in your own games.
Thank...
(If you updated to Ren'Py 7.3.1, please see the end of https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?p=514231#p514231 for instructions on how to upgrade to Ren'Py 7.3.2.)
I'm mildly chagrined to announce Ren'Py 7.3.2. This ...
2019-07-02 03:07:31 +0000 UTC View PostI'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.3.1. This is a patch release to Ren'Py 7.3, mostly intended to fix bugs and address issues that people have reported. As some of the bugs have significant performance and correctness impact, everyone who upgraded to Ren'Py 7.3.0 should move on to this version.
Ren'Py 7.3.1 also adds a few minor new features, ...
2019-07-01 04:25:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Metadata is a word that means "data about data". In this month's article, I talk about how Ren'Py can associate metadata with save slots. Doing so makes it easier for your players to determine what's stored in each save slot.
Thanks again for making these ...
2019-06-30 03:38:10 +0000 UTC View PostI'm pleased to announce the release of Ren'Py 7.3.0, the first release of Ren'Py with support for running on the web platform, inside a web browser supporting HTML 5, Web Assembly, and WebGL. Right now, this support is in beta, as it's limited by the capabilities of the web platform itself, but it's suitable for making web demos of Ren'Py games....
2019-06-16 20:48:40 +0000 UTC View Post
While the biggest new feature coming in Ren’Py 7.3 is the new support for the HTML5 web platform, one of the other new features is a long-requested revamp of the support for creator-defined statements. In this month’s article, I’ll be sh...
2019-05-30 22:33:11 +0000 UTC View Post
In the 15 years I’ve been developing Ren’Py, I’ve given talks to fan conventions, school clubs, and academic settings. When I give a talk, I use a presentation framework that runs inside Ren’Py itself. Doing so makes it possible to intermix static slides with examples of the Ren’Py script running.
Ren'Py OS is a new operating system meant for the truly devoted player of visual novels. Unlike other operating systems, which support distractions like posting to social media and playing other games, Ren'Py OS focuses on the one important us...
2019-03-31 20:41:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Ren'Py 7.2.2 is out! This is mostly a patch release, but it also includes support for the new accessibility menu, accessed by pressing 'a'. This menu puts current and future engine-level accessibility features in one place.
Downloads of 7.2.2 can be found at:
I'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.2.1, a patch release. This release consists primarily of fixes. It also adds support for generating the icon and launchimage on iOS.
Ren'Py 7.2 adds new features to Ren'Py, including:
I'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.2.0. This release adds new features to Ren'Py, including:
Perhaps the biggest new feature in the nearly-released Ren'Py 7.2 is the ability to provide arguments to menus and menu items. In this month's article, I'll go into some of the more common...
2019-03-01 00:49:20 +0000 UTC View Post(This is a copy of a post I made on the Lemma Soft forums.)
Looking at my post for the fifth anniversary of Ren'Py,...
2019-01-31 03:13:41 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s a term that’s used in the Ren’Py documentation, “interaction”. It’s an important concept in understanding how Ren’Py works, but in the 15 years that Ren’Py has been under development, I’ve never quite written it up. So, for this month’s art...
2019-01-30 06:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's article is out second Python Tricks article, and it's a double header. The first part of it talks about how one can use Python to make random events a li...
2018-12-31 21:07:02 +0000 UTC View Post
For each .rpy file you write, Ren'Py will create a corresponding .rpyc file. If you open the .rpyc file in a text editor, it won't make any sense - but to Ren'Py, it's filled with information. In this month's article, I'll describe what's inside .rpyc files, and how Ren'Py ...
2018-11-30 22:28:52 +0000 UTC View PostI've released Ren'Py 7.1.3 a few hours after 7.1.2, due to my accidentally having left in a test that caused the default language to be set to Russian. If you have downloaded 7.1.2, please update to prevent problems.
Downloads of Ren'Py 7.1.3 can be found at:
2018-11-18 16:17:29 +0000 UTC View PostI'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.1.2. This is the second bug release for Ren'Py 7.1, which improves Ren'Py while fixing issues.
There have also been a few feature additions. Some of the highlights are: