LÖVR
Godot Engine
TIC-80
GDevelop
LOVE 2D
Unity
Solar 2D
FlatRedBall
RenPy
Twine
Godot Engine
Unity
GDevelop
Unreal Engine
Ink by Inkle
Visual Novel Maker
LÖVR might be a bit more popular than RenPy. We know about 22 links to it since March 2021 and only 16 links to RenPy. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Also do not forget the VR/3D version, LÖVR: https://lovr.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
I haven't used many engines, but I've been programming some simple games with LÖVE [0] and (to a lesser extent) LÖVR [1] and like them both. But maybe not real game engines, as you need to do quite a bit of work by yourself. I guess it depends what your definition is of a game engine. --- [0]: https://love2d.org [1]: https://lovr.org. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
Not to mention there's LÖVR as well if you want to 3D. Source: about 1 year ago
As for your question - yes, it's possible to develop for the Quest. The website has information on how to do that. Source: about 1 year ago
I'll add LOVR (https://lovr.org/), the 3D analog to LOVE. Haven't used it personally so ymmv. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Food for thought: I have started, stopped, rewrote, given up, and restarted development of a visual novel engine over and over again. My vision is something kind of like Ren'Py[1] but with cross-device game saves, cleaner packaging, improved DRM, better support for complex nonlinear plot development, and better tools for developing game mechanics that go beyond clicking through paragraphs of text. A... - Source: Hacker News / 27 days ago
This marks the second phase of my expedition into the realm of Artificial Intelligence, the realm of Stable Diffusion, and the intricate domain of Ren’py. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago
Haven't used it but I hear nothing but good things about Ren'Py for Visual Novels. Source: 10 months ago
You could also try download Renpy 8.1 from the renpy.org to see if that helps if it is something with that copy of Renpy 8.0.3. Source: 10 months ago
You mentioned that your interests lay in more story/narrative roles? Get yourself a good book on Narrative Design, grab Ink+Unity or, better yet, Ren'py (renpy.org) and get to making some Narrative Games! Show your skills in not only writing but implementation. Source: 11 months ago
Godot Engine - Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
Twine - Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.
TIC-80 - TIC-80 is a fantasy computer where you can make, play and share tiny games.
GDevelop - GDevelop is an open-source game making software designed to be used by everyone.
Unity - The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
LOVE 2D - Hi there! LÖVE is an *awesome* framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua.
