a new art form -- ren'ai

[miriam_e]

Well, new to me...

I happened upon ren'ai recently, quite by accident. I had no idea what a treasure trove I was uncovering. I found it through a program called Ren'Py, which lets you create ren'ai fairly easily.

So what is ren'ai? It is Japanese for romance and is a genre of romance games or visual novels. They are a little like the old Choose Your Own Adventure books, but are done in software, and rather than being a beat-em-up adventure it generally centers around a romantic tale.

I love it. I've played a number of them so far.

Did I mention how much I love working on computers?

http://renpy.org
http://bishoujo.us
http://renai.us
http://renaigames.net
http://lemmasoft.net