Hey fellow zoners i wanna ask is there an app or some third party way to play/Android based visual novels on android devices?
Renpy on android
- Thread starter lMaDBoBl
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- May 27, 2017
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Ren'py has native Android support (for Android 2.3+) and it's usually quite easy to make a build. But if developer isn't providing an Andriod version it'll require some manual work with the sources of the game.
- Jun 28, 2017
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Android does not support certain options that a PC ren'py offers (alpha masked clickables for example, which is typically most of the clickables that aren't pure text buttons) so an actually playable android version may require at least partial rewriting of the game itself, including replacing some art assets. A ren'py game that's meant to run on android basically has to be written from the ground up with the constraints of android constraints in mind, which can affect visual quality (In game menus for clicking on locations looking very derp) or the entire game can be very, very basic in its technical design so these constraints never come up, i.e. a straight up VN without bells and whistles.
I found a tool called joiplay,
https://f95zone.to/threads/play-rpg...tyranobuilder-on-android-using-joiplay.44792/
works great, about 90% of the renpy games and rpgmaker games I've tried run on it and I have an old crap phone.
it also has a very active discord server and the community there is extremely helpful
https://f95zone.to/threads/play-rpg...tyranobuilder-on-android-using-joiplay.44792/
works great, about 90% of the renpy games and rpgmaker games I've tried run on it and I have an old crap phone.
it also has a very active discord server and the community there is extremely helpful