VN Maker

VN Maker is an engine for making visual novels with NO code at all. You build scenes visually out of nodes — background, music, character lines, player choices — and it all runs right away and turns into a finished app for Windows (and soon Android too).

⚠️ THIS IS VERY EARLY ACCESS

The engine is at the very beginning of its journey, and I'm releasing it this early on purpose. I really hope you'll see its POTENTIAL, and that from here we'll build it TOGETHER. Your feedback right now matters more than anything else.

🙏 I NEED YOUR HELP

• Leave a like if you like the idea — that tells me I'm on the right track.

• Comment: what to add, what to remove, what feels clunky, what's missing.

• Bugs, ideas, criticism — all of it is priceless. Every comment genuinely shapes what the engine becomes.

✨ WHAT WORKS RIGHT NOW

• 🌟 THE MAIN FEATURE — a visual NODE editor: build your story with the mouse out of nodes (scenes with background/music/dialogue, choices, branches, characters) and connect them with links. The entire game logic — visual, without a single line of code.

• Making visual novels for WINDOWS — the main, ready-to-use mode

• Project manager and novel templates

• A dark, Godot-style theme

• Russian and English — both in the editor and in the game itself

• Export to a ready-to-run .exe for Windows

🚧 STILL PROTOTYPES (in active development)

• "Phone OS" mode — visual novels styled as a phone

• "Empty project"

📦 HOW TO RUN IT

1. Download the archive below and unpack it into any folder.

2. Run VN Maker.exe. Nothing to install.

3. Click "New project" — and off you go!

Requires Windows 10/11 (64-bit). The engine is written in C++ and games compile into native apps — no Python or external runtime required.

📖 HOW TO USE IT

1. "New project" → pick a template (Windows novel) and a folder.

2. On the left — files and characters. Drag images/audio straight into the scene.

3. In the center — the node editor: build the story from nodes (scene, choice, branch), connecting them with links.

4. On the right — the Inspector ("Configure scene", "Translation") and the "Export" tab.

5. "Play" (top right) — test the game right inside the editor.

6. Export: the "Export" tab → "Export for Windows (.exe)".

Thanks for stopping by. Let's build this engine together 💜

Found a bug or have an idea? Drop a comment — I read everything.
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