Game Engines for OELVN Development - (Visual;Conference 2017)
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The slides for the talk that I gave at Visual;Conference 2017 about the pros/cons of using different game engines for Original English Language Visual Novels. To see the full talk and more information, please visit: http://johnpdoran.com/visualconference-2017/
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Game Engines for OELVN Development - (Visual;Conference 2017)
- 1. GAME ENGINES FOR OELVN DEVELOPMENT John P. Doran
- 2. I WANT TO KNOW: WHAT GAME ENGINES HAVE YOU USED BEFORE? HOW MANY VNS HAVE YOU CREATED?
- 3. JOHN P. DORAN TECHNICAL GAME DESIGNER
- 4. WHAT GAME ENGINE SHOULD I USE FOR MY VN?
- 7. TWINE DEPRESSION QUEST © 2014 ZOË QUINN, PATRICK LINDSEY AND ISAAC SCHANKLER
- 9. FREE SIMPLE INTERFACE EASY TO SEE STORY FLOW EXPORTS AS HTML AZATHOTH WAKES © 2016 ANIMA CHAMBERS
- 10. CAN’T EMBED MULTIMEDIA MISSING MENUS/OPTIONS DOESN’T LOOK LIKE A VN* RPG COMBAT DEMO © 2015 GUY231
- 11. TYRANOBUILDER PANZERMADELS: TANK DATING SIMULATOR © 2016 DEVGRU-P
- 13. VISUAL EDITOR SUPPORT FOR LIVE2D EXPORTS TO WIN, MAC, WEB AND MOBILE HOUKAGO QUEST! 2 © LKPROJECT
- 14. ONE TIME FEE ($15) MISSING OPTIONS NO LINUX SUPPORT (YET) IMPULSE! © NEWWESTGAMES
- 15. CLOUDNOVEL RED GRIMLY TALE © 2016 FLUFFNESS
- 17. FREE TO MAKE GAMES WEB-BASED EDITOR CAN PLAY AND TEST BUILT-IN COMMUNITY E N T O M O N © 2016 REROFUNK
- 18. DOCUMENTATION IS LACKING DOESN’T HOST CONTENT HAVE TO BE ONLINE TO VIEW CAN’T EXTEND EASILY SKIGHTS © SONYA
- 19. REN’PY ANALOGUE: A HATE STORY © 2012 LOVE CONQUERS ALL GAMES
- 21. FREE / OPEN SOURCE GREAT DOCUMENTATION LARGE COMMUNITY SEASONS OF THE WOLF © 2014 WINTER WOLVES
- 22. MUST PROGRAM CANNOT EXPORT TO WEB NO LIVE2D SUPPORT ONE NIGHT STAND © KINMOKU
- 23. GAME MAKER CINDERS © 2012 MOACUBE
- 24. ANGELS & DEMIGODS © 2016 7 KEY STUDIOS UNITY
- 25. MULTI-PLATFORM VISUAL EDITOR GREAT DOCUMENTATION ASSET STORE JOB PROSPECTS HERALD: AN INTERACTIVE PERIOD DRAMA © 2017 WISPFIRE
- 26. CAN COST CLOSED SOURCE HIGHER LEARNING CURVE MUST PROGRAM* MISS FISHER AND THE DEATHLY MAZE © 2017 EVERY CLOUD PRODUCTIONS & TIN MAN GAMES
- 27. MAKE YOUR OWN INVISIBLE APARTMENT © 2015 VYOKO ANIME PRODUCTION
- 28. WHAT GAME ENGINE SHOULD I USE FOR MY VN?
- 29. PURE WRITER
- 30. ARTIST
- 31. DEVELOPER/TEAM
- 32. CULINA: HANDS IN THE KITCHEN © 2016 LAKEVIEW INTERACTIVE CULINA: HANDS IN THE KITCHEN
- 33. THANK YOU!
Editor's Notes
- These are the main options as of this recording. Obviously in the future there will likely be more. Now there are a lot of different options out there for you to be working with, mostly based on your comfortability with them. I have a lot of talk about in very little time, so I may not be able to give you all of the nuances between engines
- For each of these engines, I’ll be going Note that I will be sending everyone here a copy of my notes for this presentation which will include these details as well as insights from developers using the engines that I talked to while researching this talk.
- There are themes available which will give a VN appearance (Like LoveClassic but only works with Twine 1): http://www.slideshare.net/rebthegreat/workshop-make-visual-novels-text-adventure-games-with-twine http://pixelles.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Pixelles_LOVEClassic.tws_.zip
- You can actually see this game in motion here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeVn17Ti_Ts There are some definite pros to using Twine, first of all being that it’s completely free to use for commercial purposes. As we saw before, it has an incredibly simple interface making it very easy to work with. It’s also very easy for us to see how the story goes.
- http://tyranobuilder.com/faq/ To add gameplay, you’ll need to dive into TyranoScript or Javascript to implement your own games within TyranoBuilder It was also missing things like moving characters
- Do this quickly! While not as mature in areas as the engines here, there are some things that are part of this engine that I think are worth noting that while I don’t think it’s ready for prime time currently, it could develop into something down the road Should be at 10 in 2 slides
- To see Live2D in action, check out: http://tyranobuilder.com/use-live2d-in-your-games/
- CloudNovel also has been talking about making people pay for the ability to export their game, but I wasn’t able to find any finalized info about it. Controls weren’t very intuitive to me.
- Even supports additional features such as In-App Purchasing Lots of nice features for artists such as LiveComposite and ImageMaps Also has great debugging tools
- No WYSIWYG editor One Night Stand, which is a IGF Finalist for Excellence in Narrative
- http://moacube.com/blog/professional-developers-look-at-gamemaker/ GameMaker Studio is newer version
- http://blog.mangagamer.org/2014/06/11/programmers-corner-writing-a-visual-novel-engine/
- Great for Designers/Programmers There are frameworks out there, such as Fungus
- Wanted access to features not available in others Propierary animation Shaders Visual Studio Having so many characters on the screen