If you need to create a visual novel, you should definitely download Novelty. With this free visual novel creator, you can build your story from its multiple windows: Story, property inspector, action window, and action catalog. From its interface you can add images, texts, audios, and perform a large number of actions and movements that will enrich your novel.
An important point of the platform is that it does not require coding to add actions and movements. Some of its main functions are: add pages, chapters, play music, play voices, play sound effects, shake objects, shake the camera, flip objects, change animations, change the state of objects, fade objects, change the visibility of objects, change the background, etc.
After installing Novelty on your computer, you will notice that the interface environment has multiple windows. In the center, you will see the main controls of the tool. There you can view the design of your visual novel. On the left, you will find the story window, from which you can add visual elements.
You can move the windows and place them anywhere in the interface using the mouse cursor. And you can add layers and global layers from its options.
Adding multimedia files
From the left panel, you can add images to the novel stored on your computer. From there you can also import audio files and bitmap fonts.
Once you select the multimedia file, it will appear in the central interface (as a first window). And when you click on it, the window settings will be activated (property inspector, action window, and action catalog).
Customizing the visual novel
Property inspector: It allows you to configure all camera parameters. You can also move the perspective of the scene layer, the foreground, the background, or the entire scene.
Action window: You can add actions like audios, cameras, scripts, paragraphs, objects, transformations, dialogues, stories, and videos. Regarding objects, you can change their state, fade them, shake them, transform them, and change their visibility, among other options.
When you finish working on a window, you will need to add another window to build your visual novel (they are like Frame in a video). Once the visual novel is complete (you have added all the actions and windows), you can play the novel in preview mode. To do that, go to the top left menu and play the whole novel or as an independent window. To export it, go to File – Export.
There are many programs for creating visual novels. But a free and unrestricted option like Novelty? Very few! This is a good alternative to Ren'Py, if it is not entirely to your liking. The platform is available in beta for Windows.
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