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Ren'Py can build games for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android,, OpenBSD, iOS. The Ren'Py SDK is officially supported on Windows, recent versions of macOS, and Linux and can be installed via the package managers of the Arch Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, and Gentoo (in experimental overlay ) Linux distributions. Ren'Py is built on pygame, which is built with Python on SDL. In addition, tools are included in the engine distribution to obfuscate scripts and archive game assets to mitigate copyright infringement. Ren'Py scripts have a screenplay-like syntax, and can also include blocks of Python code to allow advanced users to add new features of their own.

The engine also allows for movie playback for both full-screen movies and animated sprites, in-engine animation (using the built in 'Animation and Translation Language', or ATL), and full animation and customization of UI elements via 'Screen Language'. Ren'Py includes the ability to create branching stories, save file systems, rollback to previous points in the story, a variety of scene transitions, DLC, and so on. Ren'Py has proved attractive to English-language hobbyists many games use the Ren'Py engine, nearly all in English. Ren'Py is a portmanteau of ren'ai ( 恋愛), the Japanese word for 'romantic love', a common element of games made using Ren'Py and Python, the programming language that Ren'Py runs on. The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine is a free software engine which facilitates the creation of visual novels, a form of computer-mediated storytelling.

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