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Ren’Py Visual Novel Engine is a completely free software engine which helops the creation of visual novels, a form of computer-mediated storytelling. With over 300 games, it has proved attractive to English language users. Ren’Py scripts have a movie-like syntax, and can additionally include blocks of code to allow advanced users to add new features of their own, making it very adaptable. It can be ported on Android, and it can be used on nearly all mainstream PC operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS and Linux. If you have a computer, then you can Read more…

Renai games–so-called “dating sims”–are a ubiquitously Japanese flavor of game. Character-driven and focused on romance, these games often feature static background images paired with smiling character sprites. Part Choose Your Own Adventure, part statistics experiment, in renai games, love is all.

“Renai” means romance in Japanese, and that’s generally the goal of any renai game: the protagonist meeting up with all sorts of romantic interests, culminating in new relationships and friendships, with charm and good deeds shifting the romantic plot in byzantine ways.

Renai games aren’t just Japanese imports anymore. And they don’t have to be Read more…

Pixel, which is game developer Daisuke Amaya’s art-name, has been creating independent video games in the late nineties and released his first game in 2000. What the majority of gamers know him for is the increasingly popular indie-game Cave Story. Cave Story has reveled with an amazing reception from not only indie gamers, but also from professional game critics. Cave Story is a RPG side-scroller that is located within a cave in the game world of a Read more…