Ren'Py How to play Ren'Py games on linux-arm (Rasperry Pi and others)

[ParaplegicRacehorse]

There is no linux-aarch64 or linux-armv7 build target for Ren'Py. Don't bother asking devs for one.

Thanks to renpytom at the Ren'Py discord channel for help sorting this out.

1. Install Ren'Py either from your OS repositories or by compiling from source (

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2. Download your game and unpack the archive.
3. From within your terminal:

$ renpy /path/to/game_directory/

Devs:
renpytom is not averse to creating a linux-aarch64 build target. He'd rather someone else did the work, though, and put in a pull-request at GitHub.

 

[snake-case]

This doesn't work for quite a few different games due to the fact that the authors modify the renpy engine (A House in the Rift) etc...

For those particular games, they do typically bundle with a renpy launcher and associated binaries so writing a shell script to launch them is not too hard - but a little tedious.