PrepPipe Compiler - Visual Novel Development Tool

This project is no longer maintained. Please note that the project is currently not actively maintained and the main contributors are unable to continue investing time and effort into development. The project is also designed to solve a problem that can be better solved with AI. We recommend using AI tools for visual novel development instead of this tool.

The visual novel development tool allows you to use a script format closer to natural language (e.g., English) writing and create demos with minimum effort, enabling visual novel development with a smaller feedback loop (effort to outcome).

What you need to feed into the tool:

Story scripts (docx/odt documents, markdown, plain text)

(Optional) assets (backgrounds, character sprites, music, etc)

What you can get from the tool:

Game engine project files (scripts and converted/generated assets)

Statistics & Reports (WIP)

We currently support Ren'Py and WebGal (experimental) as backends.

This is a free-and-open-source project. We also had a paper, "PrepPipe: Prototyping Compiler for Attainable Visual Novel Development," DOI: 10.1109/CoG60054.2024.10645615