List of visual novel development resources/Programming
| Creator | Link | Price/ License |
Programming | UI | Fonts | Guide | Tool | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaime Scribbles | Wordpress | Free | Yes | Yes | Tutorial on how to create customizable characters with layered images in Ren'py. | |||
| ? | Pentacom.jp | Free | Yes | Yes | Library of public domain/CC pixel fonts and pixel font creator. | |||
| The Kinto Project Authors at ookami Inc. | Github | Free | Yes | Kinto, an OFL (free) Japanese font compatible with Latin fonts. | ||||
| MonteBearo Limited | Unity | Paid | Yes | Unity narrative tool "Discourse". | ||||
| Game Maker's Toolkit | Youtube | Free | Yes | Video essay on how to make dialogue mechanics more involved than basic skill checks. | ||||
| minute | Itch | Free | Yes | minute's accessibility pack for Ren'py to include text, sound, and visual options. | ||||
| Tofurocks | Itch | Free | Yes | Ren'py All-in-One GUI template with built in accessibility options and bonus screens. | ||||
| Github | Github | Free/Paid | Yes | Github's documentation tool. | ||||
| Woowa Brothers | Woowahan.com | Free | Yes | Korean fonts. | ||||
| ? | Free | Yes | OFL Google fonts inclusive of 75+ non-latin based languages. | |||||
| Multimokia | Github | Free | Yes | Multimokia's utility that allows a Ren'py game to reflect the player's local weather. | ||||
| Tim Holman & Claudio Guglieri | Meettheipsums.com | Free | Yes | Yes | Themed lorem ipsum generators (tv, film, pets, food, industry buzzwords, etc) | |||
| Ko-panda | fc2.com | Free | Yes | VN GUI. Site is in Japanese. | ||||
| Karwai Pun | Gov.uk | Free | Yes | Yes | Posters with design accessibility guidelines. | |||
| Foleso | Itch | Free | Yes | Foleso's Bridal Style VN GUI. | ||||
| Tom Gantzer | Game Developer (formerly Gamasutra) | Free | Yes | Yes | How to design menu screens for visually impaired gamers. | |||
| ? | Apple | Free | Yes | Yes | Apple's guide to UI design | |||
| Everest Pipkin | Tinytools.directory | Free/Paid | Yes | Yes | Yes | Everest Pipkin's list of open source, experimental, and tiny tools for game dev/design. | ||
| Oneirocritica Games | Itch | Free | Yes | Yes | Oneirocritica Games' free Custom Pronoun System for Ren'py that prompts the player to customize their pronouns. | |||
| Katy133 | Youtube | Free | Yes | Yes | Katy133's tutorial on creating noir lighting in Ren'py. | |||
| ? | Wordpress | Free | Yes | Yes | The Game Accessibility Guidelines provide basic/intermediate/advanced suggestions to balance the development cost, gameplay improvement, and player reach of accessible game design. | |||
| Game Dev Guide | Youtube | Free | Yes | Yes | "Make UI That Looks Good in Unity", a video on UI design/implementation in Unity. The broader design aspect is useful for non-Unity UI. | |||
| Braille Institute | brailleinstitute.org | Free | Yes | A free font by the Braille Institute with distinct characters and increased readability for low vision readers. | ||||
| Wattson | Itch | Free | Yes | Kinetic (moving) text styles for Ren'py. | ||||
| Edd Coates | gameuidatabase.com | Free | Yes | Yes | The Game UI Database contains 30,000+ screenshots from 700+ games. | |||
| npckc | Itch | Free | Yes | npckc's Pronoun Tool for Ren'py. | ||||
| ? | angelcode.com | Free | Yes | Yes | Open source Bitmap Font Generator creates bitmap fonts from TrueType fonts. | |||
| Shawna-p | Github | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Shawna-p's "Mysterious Messenger", a framework for creating calls, texts, chatrooms, and emails in Ren'py. | ||
| salinsley | Gumroad | Free | Yes | Boba Date, a cutesy font inspired by shojo manga. | ||||
| r3dhummingbird | Itch | Free | Yes | Yes | r3dhummingbird's "Ren'py Rhythm Game", an open source template for rhythm games. | |||
| J (ludowoods) | Itch | Free | Yes | Yes | J (ludowoods)'s "Twine to Ren'py", a tool to convert a Twine html file into a Ren'py rpy file. | |||
| Fiction Factory Games | Free | Yes | Arcade Spirits' custom pronoun code. | |||||
| Sakeozo | Ko-fi | Paid | Yes | Sakeozo's "Secret ASL Font" for personal use. | ||||
| Al-Fe | Unreal | Paid | Yes | Yes | Unreal Engine plugin for a visual novel framework. | |||
| puppetbomb | itch.io | Free Non-commercial use only |
Yes | I Pack: Japanese Wave Pattern | ||||
| brunoais | itch.io | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Visual UI editor for Ren'py |