RouteVN

I personally am fine without mini-games, it does get in the way. But sometimes it can be well integrated with the story that may improve the experience.

You should consider our RouteVN Creator routevn.com/creator/about/
Is still under heavy development, so not most stable. But we are making major improvements in the coming 1-2 months. Happy to answer if you have any questions!

dialune WIP ~ this is gonna be the title screen art
follow me for more updates on my girlfailure x boyfailure visual novel i am in the process of making thank you
hashtag demo releasing soon
@routevn.bsky.social <— making with their cool software
#otomeisekai #indievn #rofantasy #visualnovel

Congrats! Wish you the best.

Super interesting, unfortunatwly won't be going to GDC.
How big is the VN genre in context of GDC? I would assume pretty small?

Team Member Introduction: JeffY Introducing JeffY, a computer science student at UNSW with JavaScript experience and strong interest in visual novels.

RouteVN Team member introduction: JeffY is a second-year Computer Science student at University of New South Wales, Australia. He is very intrested in visual novels and tooling. He has contributed to many of the core RouteVN projects.
routevn.com/blog/2026/07...

Very excited to announce a collaboration with @sqewree.bsky.social It will be one of the first visual novels made with RouteVN Creator. She is doing all the story and art. Was very enjoyable to see it grow from idea -> presentation -> sketches -> full story. Stay tuned for more updates!

thank you so much!

Would love to be added if possible. Thanks!

That is awesome! Feel free to reachout if you have any questions or feedback.

those effects look gorgeous!

There won't be a new version release for RouteVN Creator this week. We're working on some major changes to unlock many exciting features for future versions.

congrats on the trailer, it is very captivating!

Excellent choice. make one!

Promo banner for NaNoRenO 2026 featuring Ren, a young artist with short hair and headphones.

It's that time again! The NaNoRenO game jam is just around the corner. Make a visual novel in just one month!

#NaNoRenO #NaNoRenO2026 #GameJam #VisualNovel #GameDev

itch.io/jam/nanoreno...

RouteVN Creator - 0.17.0 RouteVN is the dedicated platform exclusively for Visual Novels. Creators can create, publish, and distribute their work while readers can discover and read.

We have just released version 0.17.0 of RouteVN Creator! routevn.com/creator/chan...
- Fix bundle export for handling large assets
- Improve exported bundle start page
- Action to add visuals

Five Types of Newbie Visual Novel Developers YouTube video by Visual Novel Design

You ever get a strong deja vu feeling when you talk to a first-time visual novel developer? I made a video explaining why.
#vndev #visualnovel #gamedev
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVxR...

you should give RouteVN Creator a try as well! It is exactly designed for creating Visual Novels without any coding.

I'm up for it. but I didnt really understand. do you only want to display the cover of the epub book or the content inside it?

will read it

Building a Visual Novel Engine Part 3 - RouteVN Creator This post walks through how we built RouteVN Creator, a no-code desktop application for creating Visual Novels, covering the architecture and design decisions page by page.

Part 3 of our blog series on building a Visual Novel engine is live!
In this post we talk about how we built RouteVN Creator, the actual desktop application that enables anyone to create VNs witout any coding.
routevn.com/blog/2026/06...
#visualnovel #gamedev #javascript

We have just released version 0.15.0 of RouteVN Creator! routevn.com/creator/chan...
- Resources pages: Add video tab
- Scene Editor page: Support video as background

Building a Visual Novel Engine Part 2 - Route Engine Route Engine is a compact Visual Novel engine, built with less than 5000 lines of JavaScript code. Learn how we designed a system that runs entire Visual Novels from a single JSON file.

Part 2 of our blog series on building a Visual Novel engine is live!
It is a very technical and took a lot of effort to write. It embodies all our experience and learnings of building Route Engine. Hope you enjoy!
routevn.com/blog/2026/05...
#visualnovel #gamedev #javascript

Key design goals:
- All graphics/audio handled by Route Graphics
- All content lives in a single JSON object
- Engine runtime executes that content into a playable VN

Stay tuned for tomorrow!

Building a Visual Novel Engine - Part 2! 🎮

After Route Graphics, tomorrow: Route Engine. The core VN engine powering RouteVN Creator. Takes declarative graphics & sound from Route Graphics and turns it into a fully playable Visual Novel.

#visualnovel #gamedev #routevn

- Improve folder structure for new projects
- Fix update popup when already on latest version
- Fix versions page and export

RouteVN Creator - 0.14.0 RouteVN is the dedicated platform exclusively for Visual Novels. Creators can create, publish, and distribute their work while readers can discover and read.

We have just released version 0.14.0 of RouteVN Creator!
routevn.com/creator/chan...
- Resources pages: remove unnecessary tooltip
- Scenes editor: make dialogue character avatar bigger
- Scenes editor: improve validation on various forms
- Scenes editor: remove unnecessary image drag
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Team Member Introduction: Nellow Introducing Nellow, a developer at RouteVN. high school student from Nepal passionate about game development.

Did you know that one of the contributors to RouteVN Creator is actually a high school student from Nepal? Read about Nellow and his work on RouteVN!
routevn.com/blog/2026/04...

Very excited to be collaborating with @bunnibambii.bsky.social on a Visual Novel project.
Can't wait to see the art, story and characters that will be created!
#visualnovel #vn

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