Novelty

What is Novelty? Novelty is a free game development tool specifically tailored for creating visual novels. Unlike most other visual novel creators, Novelty is designed for individuals with no scripting or programming experience. As a designer, you enjoy significant artistic freedom in Novelty. There are no templates or assumptions about how your game should look. The visual tools included with Novelty empower you to give your game a strikingly unique appearance. To Program or Not to Program Novelty is firmly built around the concept of no programming required. Instead of typing code, you can use a visual pseudo-programming system that allows you to set up game events and dynamic story branches through a click-based interface. Of course, there will always be users who want to push their games beyond the standard framework, so a fully functional scripting language is also available. If you're an advanced user with experience in C++ or Java and wish to further customize your game, you'll be pleased to know that a scripting language is at your disposal. Create and Collaborate Novelty offers a robust asset creation pipeline, enabling you to design your own custom assets using a simple yet powerful markup language or through the new visual click-based interface. Assets can easily be shared with friends and other members of the Novelty community. Similarly, downloading new artwork and characters for use in your own visual novel is as simple as copying files. Novelty handles the rest for you.

Novelty is a free game-making tool for visual novels and 2D games, enabling artistic freedom and dynamic branching stories via visual tools—no coding required.