I'm happy to announce the release of Ren'Py 8.3.3 and Ren'Py 7.8.3, fix releases that improves earlier versions of Ren'Py 8.3 and 7.8 . Ren'Py 8.3 should be used for all new games. Please see the changelog for a complete list of changes.
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2024-11-16 03:41:28 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's article is the Ren'Py Developer Update for October 2024. As I've been working on getting the next fix release ready, I don't have a ton of feature...
2024-10-31 22:45:19 +0000 UTC View PostHi, everyone.
Things are back to normal with me, more or less, and that means I'm working on getting Ren'Py 8.3.3 out the door. Since an article that's mostly about fixing bugs isn't very interesting, I thought that I'd open the floor to pa...
2024-10-25 23:44:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, Ren'Py supporters. I've (with a bit of delay), released the Ren'Py Developer Update for September 2024. Some of the things I've accomplished this mo...
2024-10-03 01:38:03 +0000 UTC View Post... today's developer update will be delayed for a day or two, as I was diagnosed with a medical condition that put me into the hospital, at this point mostly for monitoring. I'll post it when I get home. If for some reason you don't get it in a f...
2024-10-01 00:59:58 +0000 UTC View PostI'm happy to announce the release of Ren'Py 8.3.2, a fix release that improves earlier versions of Ren'Py 8.3. This release fixes a build issue with 8.3.1 that prevented games from starting properly on Android.
I've also released Ren'Py 7.8....
2024-09-10 03:32:40 +0000 UTC View PostI'm happy to announce the release of Ren'Py 8.3.1, a fix release that improves earlier versions of Ren'Py 8.3, and should be used for all new games. I've also released Ren'Py 7.8.1, which mirrors it while still using Python 2.
Ren'Py 8.3 and...
2024-09-08 00:04:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's article is the Ren'Py Developer Update for August 2024. It covers Ren'Py 8.3 and 7.8 feature releases, the 8.3.1 and 7.8.1 fix releases, and then it id...
2024-08-31 03:14:29 +0000 UTC View PostI'm happy to announce the release of Ren'Py 8.3.0 and Ren'Py 7.8.0, the result of months of development. Ren'Py 8.3.0 is a feature release that adds many new features, fixes, and improvements to Ren'Py, and should be used for all new games. Ren'Py...
2024-08-23 01:29:38 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quick note to let you know that the first prerelease of Ren'Py 8.3 and Ren'Py 7.8 is out. These releases will bring audio filters and text shaders, along with many other improvements.
Downloads of Ren'Py 8.3.0 can be found at:
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2024-08-07 03:55:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the Ren'Py Developer Update for July 2024. The focus of this month was whittling down the list of tasks I had before making an 8.3 and 7.8 prerelease, and that's gone very well. 2024-07-31 21:35:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's article is the Ren'Py developer update for June 2024. It covers the two fix releases that came out in June 2024, as well as the process of whittli...
2024-06-30 22:16:58 +0000 UTC View PostI've released Ren'Py 8.2.3 and Ren'Py 7.7.3. These are fix releases for Ren'Py 8.2 and Ren'Py 7.7,. respectively. In particular, these releases solve an issue with the build process that affected 8.2.2 and 7.7.2.
Downloads of Ren'Py 8...
2024-06-18 02:24:46 +0000 UTC View PostI've released Ren'Py 8.2.2 and Ren'Py 7.7.2. These are fix releases for Ren'Py 8.2 and Ren'Py 7.7,. respectively. These also include the ability to access the accessibility menu from touch devices. For a list of what's been fixed and changed, ple...
2024-06-12 22:44:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the Ren’Py Developer Update for May 2024. This month’s article is a bit different, as Text Shaders are done and 2024-05-31 21:29:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's article is the April developer update, that covers fixes, the work that's going into the next release, and plans for that release. The big new thi...
2024-04-30 16:33:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the end of March, and happy holidays for those who celebrate.
This month had a lot of development on the next major release of Ren’Py, focusing on the audio filter feature.
2024-03-31 14:01:29 +0000 UTC
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I've released Ren'Py 8.2.1 and Ren'Py 7.7.1. These are fix releases for Ren'Py 8.2 and Ren'Py 7.7,. respectively. For a list of what's been fixed and changed, please take a look at 2024-03-05 03:36:53 +0000 UTC View Post
This month’s developer update covers what I’ve been working on in February, and what you can expect from the next major release. It’s been a bit of a slow mon...
2024-02-29 22:46:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's article is the January developer update. This one's a bit shorter than usual, and covers a few new features that were added to Ren'Py just before the R...
2024-01-31 23:18:44 +0000 UTC View PostI'm happy to announce Ren'Py 8.2.0 and Ren'Py 7.7.0, the latest releases of Ren'Py, the results of months of work by many contributors.
Ren'Py 8.2 is a major release of Ren'Py, containing new features, fixes, and improvements. It is recomme...
If you're supporting Ren'Py at one of the levels that gets your name in the credits, a postcard, or a banner on the home page, and haven't filled in our google form, pleas do so at:
Happy New Year!
It's a little early, as I'm releasing this month's article, the December 2023 Ren'Py Developer Update. It covers some of the new things ...
2023-12-31 18:46:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's article is, as usual, the November developer update. It goes over some of the new features finished this month, like transparent presplash, better word...
2023-11-30 23:26:33 +0000 UTC View Post
October was a month of steady progress on Ren’Py, marking a lot of work on the updater and related technologies, along with some quality of life improvements and a new HTTPS/HTTP fetch api. 2023-10-30 21:29:29 +0000 UTC View Post
September was a month of ups and downs, but very much a month of progress. This month's article talks about what happened in September - a month that had two fix re...
2023-09-30 23:00:49 +0000 UTC View PostI'm happy to announce the release of Ren'Py 8.1.3 and Ren'Py 7.6.3. These releases contain fixes for Ren'Py 8.1 and Ren'Py 7.6, respectively.
Downloads of Ren'Py 8.1.3 can be found at:
2023-09-19 03:07:10 +0000 UTC
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I'm pleased to announce the release of Ren'Py 8.1.2 and Ren'Py 7.6.2. These releases contain fixes for Ren'Py 8.1 and Ren'Py 7.6, respectively.
Downloads of Ren'Py 8.1.2 can be found at:
This month's developer update is a deep dive in to the biggest thing I got done this month, changes to Ren'Py's text rendering. It goes into a discussion of the dif...
2023-08-31 23:04:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, everyone, and welcome to the July 2023 Ren’Py developer update. This was a bit of a complicated month for me when it came to working on Ren’Py. Earlier this month I had to take a license test (passed it!), during the middle I had a ...
2023-07-31 15:28:15 +0000 UTC View Post