- Aug 11, 2019
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Well, first of all, as you said, it is a very simple engine and very flexible. Despite the fact that it is tailored for VN, it is easy (with certain skills) to scale it into something more complex. And developers are tight within the traditional VN, wanting something different to please the players. Even in this game (Etermun, if anything) freeroam comes up several times.I have only looked into Ren'Py superficially, why would it be used for anything else than making Games in the VN Genre ? It seems to be really good for that, see all those thousands of Games here on F95 that use Ren'Py. Very easy to understand Script Language that is Python based (having all its advantages), pretty straight forward in its use, etc. Just not seeing a usecase for non-VN Games here.
Secondly, Ren'Py contains a very important thing that is not found in other universal engines - saves. And at any time, in any game mode, you can go to the menu, save/load/change settings, and all this right out of the box. The developer doesn't even have to think about what data to save, it's all done automatically. In Unity, for example, it all falls on the programmer's shoulders. And in many of these games, saving is made obnoxious - you can only save at a certain moment, a small selection of slots for saving (if at all). Even in the menu you cannot always exit.
Ren'Py is just a convenient, free and simple engine that allows you to immediately start making a game and not all this equipment (menu, saving, etc.) and it pays off.