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Ren'Py Development Update - March 2020

This month's article is now up, covering the completion of renpy-build and some changes and improvement to iOS sup...

Ren'Py Development Update - February 2020 (and Label Log)

This month's Ren'Py development update covers many of the Ren'Py-related things I've done this month, like working...

Ren'Py Development Update - January 2020

This month's article is a Ren'Py development update, with most of the progress made this month being on renpy-buil...

Ren'Py Development Update - December 2019

For this month's article, I look back - both to the past decade, a decade in which Visual Novels have gone from vi...

Ren'Py Development Update - November 2019

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 su...

Distance to Start and End

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 whol...

Ren'Py 7.3.5 Released

I'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 ...

Ren'Py 7.3.4 Released

I'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...

Ren'Py 7.3.3 Released

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 releas...

Notarizing Mac Applications

The newest version of macOS, 10.15 Catalina, will require your games to be 2019-09-27 22:01:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Very Old Features

While most of my Patreon articles talk about how to take advantage of some of the newest features of Ren’Py, t...

Animefest News

So, 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:...

Checking for Change and Displaying a Message

This month's article comes from a suggestion for a sponsor for a system that checks for changes in variables...

Ren'Py 7.3.2 Released

(If you updated to Ren'Py 7.3.1, please see the end of https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtop...

Ren'Py 7.3.1 Released

I'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...

Save Metadata

Metadata is a word that means "data about data". In this month's article, I talk about how Ren'Py can associate ...

Ren'Py 7.3.0 Released

I'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...

Three Creator-Defined Statements

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 state...

Ren'Py Presentation Framework

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�...

Ren'Py OS FAQ

Ren'Py OS is a new operating system meant for the truly devoted player of visual novels. Unli...

Ren'Py 7.2.2 Released

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 accessibil...

Ren'Py 7.2.1 Released

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 fea...

Ren'Py 7.2.0 Released

I'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.2.0. This release adds new features to Ren'Py, including:

• Menus now take argum...
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Menu Arguments Cookbook

Perhaps the biggest new feature in the nearly-released Ren'Py 7.2 is the ability to provide arguments to menus and menu item...

Ren'Py @ 15

(This is a copy of a post I made on the Lemma Soft forums.) 

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Under the Hood: Interactions

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 de...

Python Tricks #2

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Under the Hood: .rpyc Files

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 2018-11-30 22:28:52 +0000 UTC View Post

Ren'Py 7.1.3 Released

I'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 p...

Ren'Py 7.1.2 Released

I'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...