Visual Novels For Android

[SusanTheCat]

I just got my "new to me" android tablet. It runs Android 2.2. I was able to install Ren'py and ran Moonlight Walks and my games on it.

Now I want to play some more Visual Novels on it!

Do you know of any visual novels that are playable on Android?

Susan

[AxemRed]

There
are
some

But not very many (full list)

There are also ports of ONscripter and VNDS.

[Applegate]

VNs on my phone would be rad, which is why I had attempted to port one of my VNs to Android. Sadly, I can make neither heads nor tails of the mumbo jumbo related to it.

[PyTom]

Thankfully, it will be far easier a week from now.

[Applegate]

That sounds exciting. You said earlier you thought of making it paid support - have you decided whether it'll be a free feature or a paid one?

[PyTom]

It will be free.

My current plans - always subject to change - are that any pay component for Ren'Py would target end-users, rather than developers. (For example, a Ren'Py shop, or charging for excess save-synchronization space.)

[jack_norton]

But I was wondering if devs can publish the games under their Android publisher account/name? (I am not sure exactly how it works, I only used the iOS appstore before)

[SusanTheCat]

I am now super tempting to root my tablet so I can get Android Market on it my discount tablet doesn't have it. (But there are lots of sites that tell you how to root it. )

Susan

[PyTom]

Jack, yes. You'll have to pay the $25 "I'm a real person" fee, and then you can just upload the game.

SusanTheCat - not sure if it will work or not. Ren'Py requires OpenGL ES 2, which may not be supported on cheaper devices.

[jack_norton]

OpenGL ES 2 is specific to an Android version? or depends on the hardware? I might be buying an Android tablet in next months too

[kaleidofish]

I'm glad I got a cheap tablet for Christmas (seriously, it's something from China called an "A-Pad" or something like that XD). My cellphone couldn't even handle downloading and installing Broken Hearted. Looking forward to seeing more visual novels on the marketplace!

[sciencewarrior]

OpenGL ES 2 is specific to an Android version? or depends on the hardware? I might be buying an Android tablet in next months too

Android supports OpenGL ES 2 since version 2.0. In my experience, any tablet running version 2.2 or better that isn't frustratingly sluggish has the hardware for it.

One thing that sucks: the emulator still doesn't support Open GL ES 2.0, so you have to have a physical device for your tests.

[jack_norton]

Thanks. Well the prices have fallen down (at least here) so I can get a decent tablet for under 200eur, which is an acceptable investment (if I think an iPad2 costs 400+ euros!)

[Kylock]

It will be free.

My current plans - always subject to change - are that any pay component for Ren'Py would target end-users, rather than developers. (For example, a Ren'Py shop, or charging for excess save-synchronization space.)

Out of curiosity, would such a Ren'Py shop be able to support DLC, if someone wanted to go that route?

[Anna]

Out of curiosity, would such a Ren'Py shop be able to support DLC, if someone wanted to go that route?

Say no, say no, say no :D. Goddamn DLC.

It would be fun to see more VNs for Android :D! Though I wonder when the size limit for uploading directly on the Android market site gets bigger than 30 MB - is that even still going to happen?

If we didn't have a god for compression and nuked the HD option, I doubt Firefly would have been below the limit, and aren't Ren'Py games quite big too?