Getting to Know Visual Novel Games
Visual novels are a type of adventure game, which focuses on the storytelling, so players often only read novels on personal computers that display images along with text and sound. Often players are required to choose between available options to continue to the next storyline, and each choice taken can affect the storyline of the Visual Novel being played. Other terms for visual novels are game novels or sound novels.
What is VN Maker?
VN Maker is a game development software that is intended for creating Visual Novel type games. For those of you who really like Visual Novel Games or are more focused on the story and artwork side, then this software is perfect for you. VN Maker does not require its users to be able to or master a particular programming language. With VN Maker, anyone can create a visual novel game. So if you focus on 2D Game Artwork or Game Story, this software is perfect for you to use to learn and develop your own games.
Advantages and Convenience of VN Maker
There are at least 4 advantages and conveniences offered by VN Maker as follows:
- Friendly, flexible and powerful
- Users just need to drag and drop to lay out the display.
- manipulate graphics easily
- live preview, what you see is what the player sees
- Live2D and Voice Sync Support
- supports Live2D animation so that your game display becomes more alive
- use Live2D without having to pay for additional licenses
- Movie and Audio Layering
- supports various types of movies and audio
- use movies and audio like layers and easy to integrate
- Multi-Language Support
- supports multiple languages to be implemented in the game
- supports collaboration for export in CSV file format
StARs
StARs itself is an abbreviation of Standard Asset Resources which is useful to help you who are learning to make visual novel games. StARs itself consists of various character image assets, backgrounds, music and sound effects that are free to use if we have purchased the Visual Novel Maker software.
Multi Platform
VN Maker itself can be used to produce games on various platforms such as Windows, Linux Ubuntu, Mac OSX, Android, iOS, SteamOS and Web!
Scripting
For those of us who want to make more dynamic games, we can learn scripting supported by VN Maker. Even if you have difficulty in programming, scripting is actually not that difficult. You can collaborate with your friends who are good at programming to help you. A little information that VN Maker supports 2 types of scripting, namely CoffeeScript and JavaScript . The advantage of using scripting is that we can add dynamic functions according to the wishes of the game designer. We can create plugins or extensions, even with scripting we can modify the editor and access the database in full.