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About Josiah

Josiah Lebowitz is a writer and game designer. He currently operates his own indie studio (Pen and Sword Games) while teaching game design and doing contract work for various other companies. His past projects include tie-in novellas for EverQuest Next, the game Car Washer: Summer of the Ninja, and the books Interactive Storytelling for Video Games and The Verities Silex trilogy.

A Possible New Engine

I’ve mentioned before that I would most likely be using Ren’py to make Aurora’s Nightmare, but wasn’t totally sure yet.  Basically, I’ve been keeping my options open since there’s no real benefit to committing to an engine until I’m ready to start compiling everything.  Well, that date is coming closer, since I’m really hoping to have the demo out before the end of the year, but I still have a little time to decide.  Which is nice since there’s a new visual novel engine coming out soon which is looking pretty interesting.  Right now, there’s not enough information about it for me to say for sure if VN Maker will be a good fit for Aurora’s Nightmare, but it has a lot of features I’ve been wanting so I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on it.