Visual Novels For Android
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- SusanTheCat
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Visual Novels For Android
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
Now I want to play some more Visual Novels on it!
Do you know of any visual novels that are playable on Android?
Susan
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Re: Visual Novels For Android
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.
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Thankfully, it will be far easier a week from now.
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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?
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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.)
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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)
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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. )
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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.
SusanTheCat - not sure if it will work or not. Ren'Py requires OpenGL ES 2, which may not be supported on cheaper devices.
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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
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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!
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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.jack_norton wrote: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
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.
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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!)
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Out of curiosity, would such a Ren'Py shop be able to support DLC, if someone wanted to go that route?PyTom wrote: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.)
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Kylock wrote:
Out of curiosity, would such a Ren'Py shop be able to support DLC, if someone wanted to go that route?
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?
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