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The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine is a free software engine which facilitates the creation of visual novels, a form of computer-mediated storytelling. Ren'Py is a portmanteau of ren'ai, a type of game made using Ren'Py; and Python, the programming language that Ren'Py runs on. Ren'Py has proved attractive to English-language hobbyists; over 400 games use the Ren'Py engine, nearly all in English.[4][5]
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Ren'Py supports nearly all features that a visual novel might reasonably be expected to have, including branching stories, save file systems, rollback to previous points in the story, a variety of scene transitions and so on. Ren'Py scripts have a screenplay-like syntax, and can additionally include blocks of Python code to allow advanced users to add new features of their own. Additionally, tools are included in the engine distribution to obfuscate scripts and archive game assets to mitigate copyright infringement.[6]
Ren'Py is built on pygame (which is built with Python upon SDL), and is officially supported on Windows, recent versions of Mac OS X, and Linux, and is included as part of the Arch Linux (as an AUR package), Ubuntu, Debian, and Gentoo (in experimental overlay[7]) Linux distributions. It can also be ported to Android.[6]
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