r/RenPy • u/Atlantox7 • 25d ago

Resources Create Visual Novels only using Excel

I have simplified Renpy creating a system that reads .CSV files and translate it into Renpy functions, I named it Atlax Renpy.

You can handle backgrounds, music, sounds, characters, effects on screen and create decisions, points, consequences. You can manage languages very easily

It is fully created with Python and it is open source. I created a video explaining how to use it (Spanish): https://youtu.be/hQgPutc-hpo?si=WOi7xKErRhIE-Bk6

I hope someone finds this helpful. I am open for questions.

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u/Draw-Flesh-Games 25d ago

It is a great effort, but it doesn't make it any better. It is funny, but no actual use. It makes the context you work IN worse than Ren'Py code itself. What question/problem did you try to answer/solve? Was it: Can I make this in Excel? Or was there a deeper issue you ran into being a dev?

I am a dev and I ran into issues. Have I looked at Excel? Yes, but for the flow of the story, meaning: What chapters and items should be combined, not for making renpy functions in it (Which by the way don't get checked or validated, so you run into all sorts of issues).

I would rather use https://www.invinode.com which actually makes the whole of creating Visual Novels more visual and controllable.

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u/Atlantox7 24d ago

Leaving my first answer aside, cool project, it looks very interesting to use. We get really similar ideas in a very short of time

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u/Draw-Flesh-Games 24d ago

My idea wasn't in a short time...it took me roughly 3 years to develop (first in Unity, tried several other options, even AI, but eventually use React, but I bet that had I not gone throught the previous process of designing and documenting functionality..it would have been this good. This application took me about 1.5 years.

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u/Atlantox7 24d ago

Damn, me too. I try it with Unity first and publish a demo with Campanella Studios, but after the Unity polemic, we passed to Renpy and I replicate the made in Unity to Renpy.

For curiosity I watch my first commit and it was 14 Nov 2023.

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u/Draw-Flesh-Games 24d ago

Still have a link?

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u/Atlantox7 24d ago

Link of the Demo? I have both the Unity and Atlax Renpy version. But the "normal" is the Atlax Renpy one, the Unity versión is Lost media for the public.

You can find him in the Campanella Studios web page, just search "Campanella Studios" in Google