What is Visual Novel Engine?
Visual Novel Engine is an open-source tool for creating visual novel games and interactive fiction. It provides a graphical interface and tools that allow creators to build visual novels with complex stories, dialogue systems, graphics, animation, background music, and sound effects, without needing to write any code.
Some key features of Visual Novel Engine include:
- A visual editor to arrange scenes, characters, backgrounds, music etc
- A dialogue tree system for writing conversations and choices
- Support for animations and mini-games with a simple scripting language
- Options to export finished visual novels for multiple platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, and web browsers
- Integration with cloud hosting services to publish visual novels
- Collaborative editing tools for teams to work together on projects
- An asset library containing free character sprites, backgrounds, music tracks to use
With its approachable workflow focused on storytelling rather than coding, Visual Novel Engine makes it possible for writers, artists, musicians and creatives to bring their interactive visual novel ideas to life without needing programming expertise. It offers powerful professional-grade tools while maintaining an intuitive interface for beginner creators. As an open-source project, the software is free with a strong community supporting and expanding it.