RenPyWeb

I'm working on Ren'Py for the Web - play VN games in your browser :)

Donate and help the development go faster!

Test the beta version:
(start-up be long, let it load for a minute)

(Shitf+O for dev console, F3 for perfs)

Or test your own local game: provide a .zip containing a game/ folder
(this is purely local to your browser, nothing is sent to us)

Feedback welcome!
e-mail - LemmaSoft - itch.io - Patreon

Roadmap (in no definite order)

• Python port for the browser, with Cython support
• Size-optimized minimal Python environment
• Pygame_SDL2 basic port for the browser
• Reconcile asynchronous browser execution with Ren'Py synchronous model (with lower perfs for now)
• Report and fix Emscripten bugs (ongoing)
• Run unmodified Ren'Py games
• WebAssembly support for Firefox (+fall-back to asm.js for other/older browsers)
• WebAssembly support for Chrome/Chromium
• Initial sound support
• Load game from an URL
• Load your own game locally
• Fix freezes
• Fix image prediction
• Fix auto-save
• Fix opening web links
• Fix keyboard focus on itch.io
• Improved sound support
• More responsive game loading
• On-demand resource download (currently requires downloading the whole game on startup)
• Improve overall performances
• Alternate port with experimental browser features (SharedArrayBuffer and threading) so as to get great performances, and to be ready when those feature become default in browsers. This requires improving emscriptem too
• Alternate compression when gzip is broken (e.g. itch.io)
• Video support
• Quit game cleanly
• Upgrade Ren'Py 7.0 -> 7.1.1
• Make all changes generic (clean-up) and merge them to Pygame_SDL2 and Ren'Py (ongoing)

Status report (2018-10-14):

• Improve performances (WASM support) for Chrome/Chromium
• Contribute transparency (alpha) fix in official Emscripten #7227/#7242
• Start structuring the compilation process to test multiple emscripten versions/patches

Status report (2018-10-07):

• Better performance for Firefox (not Chrome due to WebAssembly size limitations)
• Initial sound support
• Load your own game locally! (provide a .zip containing a game/ folder)
• Load game from an URL: The Question Tutorial

Status report (2018-09-30):

• The base engine works with Firefox; it works with Chromium too though it required some performances compromise
• Sound is currently disabled (working on it)
• Game was not modified, just repacked. Ren'Py however was butchered a little bit ;)
• Game must be entirely downloaded first
• Game performances were improved enough for playability. Better performances are possible but require more work
• itch.io downloads are way larger than here due to long-standing compression issues (#394); work-arounds could be implemented with some work
• Official Python 2.7 ported for the web, but without threads
• Some fixes were included in Emscripten though not all yet