List of time stamps: 0:17 Ren'py 1:30 NaniNovel 2:27 TyrnoBuilder 3:22 VN Maker 4:05 Narrat 4:52 Conclusion and honourable mentions

There's a new engine in development called Novel Studio, it's another no-code engine that I think looks promising and might be worth a try!

NARRAT MENTIONED! Its my engine of choice and i can confirm its really user friendly, even for a first timer. Definitely recommend it, especially if you have some experience with web dev!

wow! hi thanks for mentioning narrat :D

Narrat is great : 3 It gets new features all the time, often really quickly after someone requests them... I love using it !

Thank you Mado, I’ve recently been thinking of making a VN but gave up cause I didn’t even know how, BUT this video has reawakened that idea so thank you again Mado. You won’t go unappreciated

i've started to use ren'py this year and i'm excited to use it again for my final year project's visual novel.

VNs are cool ways to tell a story. It's nice to learn the tools and methods. Thank you.

The one that makes the characters animated like you, Mado.

Very interesting watch! Thank you for making this and helping the VN community!

Great video! Didn't know about Narrat at all and I'll definitely be looking into it for future VNs :>

Really good video! I was looking for a Godot option and found Dialogic, which seems really nice at a first glance btw!

Wow! This is amazing! Please tell me more to this series is incoming?! 🥺

Thank you for this video! I came in only knowing that Ren'Py existed, so it was cool to learn about other options. Narrat is the one I'm most interested in learning more about.

Good

I'm quite looking forward to this series. I found you through happenstance (Reese's Puffs Fate remix comment), and found core interest in this first video I see. Its something I've wanted to do for some time now but have been intimidated as I may have genuine trauma from trying to learn code back in the day. (Don't wanna make that call, I'm not a psychologist :P)

Hi mado it's Lilith I can't wait for more of these :)

Great vid thanks

thank u

Hey Mado, do you know if there are any articles out there on Ren'Py best practices?

thanks mado

Tyranobuilder is straight up abandonware. From personal experience: unless it's a lineal/kinetic novel you WILL need to code and there's 0 documentation on it. It doesnt allow for much customization UI wise and when you do try to modify it you will encounter program bugs that have not been fixed and likely NEVER WILL. It is a shame bc you can easily add live2D stuff and mini games made in frazer but all that goes to the trash when the export for anything but windows just DOESN't work and changing the UI is almost impossible. I would say it's good for a MICRO game at best but if you have more than one ending or need routes you are doomed. The documentation is so poorly done it's almost a joke and the old documentation is just GONE, the only good thing are a few tutorials in spanish from several years ago in trash quality. From the bottom of my heart: do not use tyranobuilder. For all the good things it may have the headache it will give you is simply not worth it

What computer should you use to make A VN

What engine would recommend for someone who already has some experience in game dev for non-VN or has any hands-on coding experience in general? I already had my answer, but I think someone else might have a similar question to this.