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Getting your game translated into as many languages as possible will surely help with gaining a wider audience. Luckily, Ren’Py makes translating games fairly easy. Load up the Ren’Py launcher and select “Generate Translations”. You’ll be presented with a screen where you can enter the name of the language and select a few options. Make […]

The game’s script has been written, renders have been painstakingly crafted and you’ve lovingly plonked everything inside your favorite development framework. Just hit publish, right? Wrong. Lots of developers throw the images they just rendered in DAZ3D into their game directory without considering whether that’s the best cause of action. DAZ3D for example, outputs uncompressed […]

Achievements are a staple of modern gaming and an expected feature when you publish a game on Steam. Achievements are a way to encourage players to keep on playing or even replay your game multiple times. As such, Valve marks achievements as one of the features that will boost the sales of a title in […]

One of the most daunting things about learning a new framework is knowing where to put everything so that you won’t get completely overwhelmed by the chaos of your own creation in the near future. Reading up on best practices or even cracking open an existing project by another developer and looking at the code […]

Ever since Valve has allowed erotic content in their immensely popular storefront more and more titles have been cropping each month. If your project is nearing completion or is completed, you should seriously consider publishing your game on Steam. There’s a huge audience, largely separated from the crowd that frequents sites like Patreon or itch.io, […]

Ren’Py already allows us to build games for Windows, Linux, macOS and Android. With the release of Ren’Py 7.3, the framework has gained the option to create HTML5 builds. Apart from being a regular contributor to the main Ren’Py project, beuc has been porting the framework to modern web browsers. Ren’Py Web is still in […]