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The very first Renpy game with 3D graphics
🕑 Added 2022-10-20 22:33:37 +0000 UTC
I have claimed a few times that I created the first ever 3D rendered visual novel in Renpy, but except for some old forum posts I have never been able to prove it.
So in this public Patreon post, I give you the proof: The March 2012 demo I made just over 10 years ago. Details about the history can be found in a post here.
This is nothing more than a demo, a proof of concept. I spent another year working on the program before its public beta, but at only 23MB it seems I can publically share it here on Patreon.
Yes the graphics are awful, Ariane does not even look like Ariane, and I pretty much used the default settings for Renpy as they existed at the time (renpy itself looked pretty primitive in 2012). I was hoping to find the original 2013 beta and 1.0 release, but none of the drives currently attached to my computer have them. They may exist in old portable backup hard drives in my closet, but I'm not in the mood to dig for them.
It is worth a look just for a laugh.
Coincidentally, the picture of the week on my arianeb.com website is an updated version of a scene you can find in this demo.
