Novelate is a visual novel engine written in D.

It officially binds to SFML but the engine itself has no direct dependencies on SFML as there's plans for supporting libraries such as SDL etc. in the future too.

It's still a work-in-progress but the basics are done as of now and it has reached a point where publishing it as open-source is possible.

Preview:

https://i.imgur.com/YyoIWkp.png

For more information see:

Github: https://github.com/Novelate/NovelateEngine
Dub: https://code.dlang.org/packages/novelate

A website with documentation etc. is coming soon as well!

Thank you!

On Thursday, 23 January 2020 at 15:19:34 UTC, bauss wrote:
> Novelate is a visual novel engine written in D.
>
> It officially binds to SFML but the engine itself has no direct dependencies on SFML as there's plans for supporting libraries such as SDL etc. in the future too.
>
> It's still a work-in-progress but the basics are done as of now and it has reached a point where publishing it as open-source is possible.
>
> Preview:
>
> https://i.imgur.com/YyoIWkp.png
>
> For more information see:
>
> Github: https://github.com/Novelate/NovelateEngine
> Dub: https://code.dlang.org/packages/novelate
>
> A website with documentation etc. is coming soon as well!
>
> Thank you!

Love the initiative, I'll be sure to keep an eye on this!

On Thursday, 23 January 2020 at 15:19:34 UTC, bauss wrote:
> Novelate is a visual novel engine written in D.
>
> It officially binds to SFML but the engine itself has no direct dependencies on SFML as there's plans for supporting libraries such as SDL etc. in the future too.
>
> It's still a work-in-progress but the basics are done as of now and it has reached a point where publishing it as open-source is possible.
>
> Preview:
>
> https://i.imgur.com/YyoIWkp.png
>
> For more information see:
>
> Github: https://github.com/Novelate/NovelateEngine
> Dub: https://code.dlang.org/packages/novelate
>
> A website with documentation etc. is coming soon as well!
>
> Thank you!

Cool! I been toying with a 2D game engine myself, having been inspired by Godot (I know, it begs the question why I don't use the available D bindings), so your project will be a nice additional reference point for me.

Also nice to see that dsfml seems to still be maintained, for some reason I switched to the derelict sfml bindings, but I can't remember why now...

Keep up the good work!

Jordan

On Thursday, 23 January 2020 at 19:11:19 UTC, Jordan Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 January 2020 at 15:19:34 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> Novelate is a visual novel engine written in D.
>>
>> It officially binds to SFML but the engine itself has no direct dependencies on SFML as there's plans for supporting libraries such as SDL etc. in the future too.
>>
>> It's still a work-in-progress but the basics are done as of now and it has reached a point where publishing it as open-source is possible.
>>
>> Preview:
>>
>> https://i.imgur.com/YyoIWkp.png
>>
>> For more information see:
>>
>> Github: https://github.com/Novelate/NovelateEngine
>> Dub: https://code.dlang.org/packages/novelate
>>
>> A website with documentation etc. is coming soon as well!
>>
>> Thank you!
>
> Cool! I been toying with a 2D game engine myself, having been inspired by Godot (I know, it begs the question why I don't use the available D bindings), so your project will be a nice additional reference point for me.
>
> Also nice to see that dsfml seems to still be maintained, for some reason I switched to the derelict sfml bindings, but I can't remember why now...
>
> Keep up the good work!
>
> Jordan

Planning to support Derelict too so it can be used along with those bindings and SDL too.

The reason why I went with dsfml initially was just that it was easier to start out with rather than fiddling with Derelict. However Derelict supports SFML 2.4 which dsfml doesn't (It's SFML 2.1) so that might be why you went with it and also why I want to support that as well.

The engine itself doesn't depend on dsfml, there is a module that interfaces to it but for any other bindings you just create the same interfaces and encapsulates it in its own version scope.

https://github.com/Novelate/NovelateEngine/tree/master/source/novelate/external

The reason for it is to make sure the engine can be used with existing projects or be implemented into existing games etc.

On Thursday, 23 January 2020 at 18:00:30 UTC, Cym13 wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 January 2020 at 15:19:34 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> Novelate is a visual novel engine written in D.
>>
>> It officially binds to SFML but the engine itself has no direct dependencies on SFML as there's plans for supporting libraries such as SDL etc. in the future too.
>>
>> It's still a work-in-progress but the basics are done as of now and it has reached a point where publishing it as open-source is possible.
>>
>> Preview:
>>
>> https://i.imgur.com/YyoIWkp.png
>>
>> For more information see:
>>
>> Github: https://github.com/Novelate/NovelateEngine
>> Dub: https://code.dlang.org/packages/novelate
>>
>> A website with documentation etc. is coming soon as well!
>>
>> Thank you!
>
> Love the initiative, I'll be sure to keep an eye on this!

Thank you!

On Thursday, 23 January 2020 at 15:19:34 UTC, bauss wrote:
> Novelate is a visual novel engine written in D.
>
> It officially binds to SFML but the engine itself has no direct dependencies on SFML as there's plans for supporting libraries such as SDL etc. in the future too.
>

Just want to give a quick update that it now officially supports SDL as well which means the engine can use both SFML and SDL for rendering, handling events etc.

This is useful when you want to incorporate the engine into existing projects, games etc.

This change is not part of a release though because the next release will have some other features attached too. See the "Projects" tab on Github for more information and the pipeline of the project.