Lovers of dating sims, rejoice. Thy time is now. Visual Novel Maker, a game-making tool that lets you create your own choice-driven stories, is out today. It’s priced at 46/$60, though. That isn’t so surprising, considering that it’s made by the same folks who do RPG Maker, which has always been expensive outside of a sale. But when Ren’Py is free and does more or less the same thing, 40 feels like a lot. (more…)

The makers of RPG Maker are making a new maker called Visual Novel Maker which makes the maker make the makings of okay I m going to stop now. The piece of DIY software is a tool for Visual Novel Creation aimed towards aspiring artists and writers, say creators Degica Games. Like its RPG brethren, it comes with basic assets (characters, backgrounds, sound effects, etc) but is managed by a simple point-and-click or drag-and-drop interface with some scripting also available. It s coming out on November 16. (more…)