WebVN
A Visual Novel Engine for the modern web.
This pet project is envisioned to become a Visual Novel engine (like Ren'Py) and authoring tool to easily create and share web based Visual Novels.
Maybe I'll make a proper game with this some day...
Demo
Features:
- Editor with
- Live preview
- Jump to line
- Live code validation
- YAML-based scripting language
- Animated ADV text box with name tags
- Animated decision prompts
- Control flow with variables, arithmetic and boolean logic
- Sprites (translation)
- Backgrounds (panning, scaling)
- Background transitions
- Background music and sound effects
- Fast forwarding though seen text (skip mode)
- Unlimited "undo/rollback" history
- Saving/Loading (menus are WIP)
- Mobile friendly fullscreen mode
Technical feats:
- Redux-inspired immutable state management
- Rendering and UI code directly against browser DOM APIs, no frameworks or libraries involved. (Experiments with React & others still left in the repo)
- Seen text nodes stored using custom ConsecutiveIntegerSet data structure
- The "path" taken through the VN in the only thing persisted upon saving. Full state is simulated upon loading.
How to run
yarn
yarn dev
and off you go!