Creating Your First Visual Novel

Follow this guide to create your first visual novel using our launcher.

You may do it the old-school way following the old guide at: https://dvn-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.html

Requirements

• (Required) Download the visual novel launcher here: https://github.com/ProjectDVN/launcher/archive/refs/heads/main.zip (Source Code + Windows x86_64 build)

1. Getting started

First you need to open the launcher.

You can find the Windows x86_64 build in launcher-main/ProjectDVNLauncher/build/client called DVN.exe.

For other platforms you must build the project, see https://dvn-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.html for more information.

First press the label that says “CREATE NEW PROJECT”

Start page

Next up give your project a title and then choose a color theme.

You can change all the colors later in settings.json if needed.

Create new project

Afterwards hit save and the project will be created.

2. Select the project

Now that the project has been created select it from the list.

Select the project

If you press the “LAUNCH PROJECT” button then it will launch your project and you’ll be able to preview any changes made.

Now we suggest you follow this guide to modify your visual novel: https://dvn-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.html