onscripter ☆

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Description:
NScripter-compatible visual novel engine

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Nov 13, 2024

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Multimedia

Tags: visual-novel game-engine games interactive-fiction compatibility-layer

Install: brew install onscripter

About:
ONScripter is an open-source, cross-platform game engine that interprets and executes scripts written for the NScripter visual novel engine. It enables the creation and playback of visual novels and other 2D adventure games, supporting features like text display, image layers, sound, and basic video. Its main value is providing a free, compatible runtime for playing a wide library of existing NScripter-based games on modern operating systems.

Key Features:

NScripter script compatibility
Cross-platform support (macOS, Windows, Linux, etc.)
Support for images, audio (BGM/SE), and video playback
SDL-based rendering for modern systems
Relatively lightweight and portable engine core

Use Cases:

Playing existing visual novels and kinetic novels originally made with NScripter
Developing new visual novels using the NScripter-compatible scripting syntax
Porting or testing NScripter projects to non-Windows platforms

Alternatives:

Ren'Py – A more modern, full-featured, and actively developed visual novel engine with its own Python-based scripting language, less focused on direct NScripter compatibility.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Nov 13, 2024 9:06am		0	VERSION_BUMP	3c75d13a