LVNAuth

Visual novel creator and player

Description

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

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 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.

• Create non-linear visual novels: Branch your stories off based on the viewer's choices. Linear visual novels can also be created.

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 play 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.

Worth noting:

• It's possible to ask the viewer questions and save the answers in the current visual novel session. Once the visual novel is closed, those answers are lost. A feature is planned to save the viewer's answers for future sessions.