Ren'Py Engine help

[George Halstead]

Friends i am currently using RPGMaker MV to create a game but i have seen time and again the negative comments about RPGMaker so i want to try to use Ren'Py.

My question is this, being new to the Ren'Py engine i know next to nothing. Is it possible to drop in an existing game to learn ? It is easily done in RPGMaker but not sure if i can do it with Ren'Py.

Has anyone tried to do it and if so could you explain how to do it please.

 

[Deleted member 167032]

Well the two as i understand it are different and mostly use to create different type of games. The one you run around a map a lot RPGMaker and the other have more static images/animation and can have many branches or choice based options.

I started with Tyrannobuilder but then switched over to RenPy. Trust me when i say i have ZERO coding skills just ask Rich as he's been helping me a lot, also DocPink...

So depending on what you want your game to be. If a game like Lust Epidemic then RPGMaker but anything like my game RTP or Acting Lessons then use RenPy... There are many tutorials and guys on here are very helpful

 

[Rich]

Friends i am currently using RPGMaker MV to create a game but i have seen time and again the negative comments about RPGMaker so i want to try to use Ren'Py.

My question is this, being new to the Ren'Py engine i know next to nothing. Is it possible to drop in an existing game to learn ? It is easily done in RPGMaker but not sure if i can do it with Ren'Py.

Has anyone tried to do it and if so could you explain how to do it please.

There are a number of "Renpy decompilers" out there. (And not even always necessary, because some games essentially ship with everything intact.) But if you expand a Ren'py game back to its source, then you can open it up in the Ren'py development environment and examine its source and fiddle with it to your heart's content.

See

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for one good decompiler.

 

[DreamLab Studio]

When I first started looking into RenPy I used UnRen.bot that Rich posted a link to above. I had just completed the Dreams Of Desire game (Amazing game by the way). I used UnRen.bot on that game to view the code and see how it was put together. I found this much more helpful than just looking through the RenPy docs, though that's handy as well.

 

[Rich]

Exactly. The Ren'py docs are "references" which tell you how individual bits work. They aren't "tutorials" which tell you how to do X. So looking through a few games is a good way to get an idea how to actually do things. You can play through a game and look at the code at the same time - that gives you a much better feel for "what does what."

 

[anne O'nymous]

You can play through a game and look at the code at the same time - that gives you a much better feel for "what does what."

He can also use these game to experiment. It's code that works, so it's a good base to see what happen if you add this, or change that.