ettethread

[WIP] Visual novel game engine with a focus on customization, portability, and preformance.

The showcase for this game will likely be a release of a Doki Doki Literature Club fan title.

Primary Goals

• Bring the power of generative dialog to games, more specifically visual novels.

Why hasn't this been done? I don't know, honestly. I think games like visual novels are perfectly suited for this. These games have been missing AI dialog, and I believe that it will allow players to further explore a universe tailed to their gameplay.

• Speed.

RenPy is not browser friendly. This is. And this is FAST. Rust and Bevy are extremely efficient, and will allow this to be blazingly quick!.

• Self-hostability.

I like the ability to host my own game, and I think you should too. This allows you to host the entire game via Rust, and run your own private models for dialog!

Features (see ettethread repo for the prototype!):

Rust / NodeJS prototype

• Characters
• Uniforms
• Emotions
• (not yet ported to Rust version) Variable system
• (not yet ported to Rust version) Advanced logic syntax and macros
• Custom langauge
• Easy to learn bash-like syntax
• Scenes
• Easy pathing
• Artificially generatable dialog
• AI 'goal' system
• (partially ported to Rust version) AI filtering system
• Feedback-resolution loop (PID-AI)
• Asynchronus time-based loops
• Opacity shifting on transition
• Opacity shifting on player entrance
• Fancier text input
• • Clear
• • Blinking cursor
• • Typing sound
• • Character max indicator
• • Hints on high response count
• • Skill issues with players not knowing what to do

Until the word WIP is purged from this README, this is NOT a release. This will be a long-running project.