BROKVN - Visual Novel Engine

BROKVN is a free tool to make interactive visual novels, offering these features (and more):

• Play dialogue (up to 4 characters at once on screen)
  
• Make choices
• Manage variables and do checks ("choose your own adventure" style)
• Load / save, progress management
• Manage inventory
• Display text, images and backgrounds, move them, apply effects
• Import and display custom characters, with full body and animated eyes/mouth
• Create clickable areas
• Create re-usable functions
• Presentation:
  • Chapter title
  • Screen fade in/out
  • Screen  effects (shake, snow...)
  • Ambient color applied to characters
• Dialogue log
• Move characters around
• Custom user interface and custom fonts
• Play music, sounds, ambient tracks
• Play voices with lipsync
• Mouse, keyboard, gamepad and touch support
• Translations support
• Accessibility support
• Export to PC, mobile and consoles

The engine works with plain text files and a simple syntax. As such, it is pretty easy to use. No programming knowledge required to start with it! It should also be possible to make simple 2D first-person point & clicks with it.

I created it when I realized that my game BROK the InvestiGator's code already contains everything needed for a visual novel. I provide with the engine a number of ready-to-use assets from  it (and as such it's ideal to make "fan visual novels" based on BROK)

Let's be clear though: it can make any kind of visual novels - just create your own characters and backgrounds!

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HOW TO USE:

• Download the BROKVN_Engine.zip
• Uncompress it somewhere and launch "vnengine.exe"
• On first launch, it should automatically start with a basic example. Follow the instructions.
• Read the documentation inside the "BROK_VN_DOCUMENTATION" folder (at the root of the engine files) and start editing the basic example in "AppData/Local/vnengine/VN/" path to make your own visual novel.
• Check the more complete "VN_ADVANCED" example once you get the hang of it. (copy those files inside your VN folder)
• A pack of assets ready to use is also available to download separately on this page: BROK_VN_ASSETS.zip

For a real world example, you can also check out my BROK Natal Tail Christmas game, which was entirely made with it.

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To create the games: For now, this tool requires a PC (Windows, Mac or Linux). I may provide more platforms in the future.

To run the games: the engine is built on top of GameMaker code, so it can technically export to many platforms, including PC/Mac/Linux, Android, iOS and potentially even consoles! (Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5 and Xbox) 

To get help: I will personally provide support during the development phase on my Discord server: https://discord.gg/brok

Consoles development is tough but I have experience (I have released 5 games on all consoles on the market) and I'm ready to help anyone with an ambitious project to port their game to consoles.