This is a super fun environment. I worked with my daughter to make a few interactive stories and it was pretty accessible, even to a 12 year old with minimal coding experience.
This is a super fun environment. I worked with my daughter to make a few interactive stories and it was pretty accessible, even to a 12 year old with minimal coding experience.
I was just thinking, my daughter loves building and playing this sort of game in Scratch… something like Ren’Py might be a good next step for her. I started my programming journey with HyperCard...
I was just thinking, my daughter loves building and playing this sort of game in Scratch… something like Ren’Py might be a good next step for her. I started my programming journey with HyperCard and World Builder some 30+ years ago, and I’m always on the lookout for contemporary analogs for my kids.
Ren'Py is a portmanteau of ren'ai (恋愛), the Japanese word for 'romantic love', a common element of games made using Ren'Py; and Python, the programming language that Ren'Py runs on.
I looked at Ren'Py again recently when I was fiddling around with some game dev tools. I often recommend it for folk that want to make a VN. I ended up messing about with Godot after some...
I looked at Ren'Py again recently when I was fiddling around with some game dev tools. I often recommend it for folk that want to make a VN. I ended up messing about with Godot after some meandering about.
Some of the most popular Ren'Py games include Katawa Shoujo, Doki Doki Literature Club, and Slay the Princess.
This is a super fun environment. I worked with my daughter to make a few interactive stories and it was pretty accessible, even to a 12 year old with minimal coding experience.
I was just thinking, my daughter loves building and playing this sort of game in Scratch… something like Ren’Py might be a good next step for her. I started my programming journey with HyperCard and World Builder some 30+ years ago, and I’m always on the lookout for contemporary analogs for my kids.
How does one pronounce “Ren’Py,” anyway?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%27Py
So, ren, like ren and stimpy, and py like “pie”
I looked at Ren'Py again recently when I was fiddling around with some game dev tools. I often recommend it for folk that want to make a VN. I ended up messing about with Godot after some meandering about.
Some of the most popular Ren'Py games include Katawa Shoujo, Doki Doki Literature Club, and Slay the Princess.
There's a Ren'Py game from 2013 worth visiting, called Save the Date. You can find it here: https://paperdino.com/save-the-date/