LVNAuth

Visual novel creator and player

Description

LVNAuth is a desktop application that lets you create and view visual novels. Currently, it is available for Linux.

A Windows version is planned.

Main features:

• Built-in Editor: Manage your visual novel, from beginning to end, using LVNAuth's GUI editor.

• A command system: You can start or stop actions in your visual novel by using some simple commands.
  
  A built-in Wizard window will guide you with using commands so you don't have to memorize the commands.

  No programming experience required. LVNAuth is made for story writers.

• Chapters and Scenes: You can have multiple scenes within a chapter.

• Simple Animations: Ability to apply character and object animations, such as fade, movement, rotate, and scale.

Other features:

• Support for backgrounds, characters, including the ability to change a character's image to show a different facial expression, and object images. Images in .png format are recommended.

• Support for Font Sprite Sheets and Font Kerning. There is also a built-in bitmap font tracing tool to convert variable width font sprite sheets to a fixed width.

• Compile your story into a single .lvna file, which can be opened using LVNAuth. Your viewers will need LVNAuth to view your visual novel.

• No programming language support. LVNAuth only allows the use of its own commands. This restriction might even make it easier to create visual novels because you don't have to learn a particular programming language to create a visual novel with LVNAuth.

Noticable missing features:

LVNAuth is a new project so there are some missing features worth noting.

• Currently there is no way to branch off the story based on the user's choices. Only linear visual novels can be made.
  This feature is planned.

• There is no feature to ask the viewer a question and then save the answer for later.
  This feature is planned.