Ren'Py 7 Roadmap?

[Nikolai]

Forgive me if this question has been asked a lot, but is there some kind of roadmap for Ren'Py 7? I'd like to try to anticipate coming changes in light of a project I'm toying with.

Thanks for any insight you can lend.

[PyTom]

There probably won't be a Ren'Py 7, in the way I originally planned it. Most of the features I had planned are in Ren'Py.

Instead, expect a series of time-based releases - right now, I'm aiming for one in december/january - that add features and slowly change Ren'Py in compatible ways. The big focus of Ren'Py 6.15 "Foreign Policy" will be a new translation framework, but there will likely be other improvements as well.

[Nikolai]

Ah, thank you. I'm thrilled that you continue to develop Ren'Py's capabilities. Are you disappointed that you won't be designing Ren'Py 7 as a separate beast?

[PyTom]

To be honest, everything that I had planned for Ren'Py 7 - feature wise - is already there. (GL, ATL, and SL). The launcher has been rewritten - twice. The docs aren't there, and neither is the tutorial game - and since I want to keep working on Ren'Py, I focus on the technical stuff that interests me, rather than the chores.

[jack_norton]

The docs now are quite good, much better than a few years ago for example
Was wondering if you planned to do a "downloader" for Android to bypass the (crazy) 50mb limit? some users asked about it just today in my forums