Controller Support Expansion is Released!

At long last, the controller support expansion for Ren'Py is released. I originally started to work on this pack back in June, set it down for a few months, and have been working on it very consistently since the end of November. This project has been a huge labour of love - originally it was just going to be a controller-friendly viewport, but it's ballooned into so much more.

Controller users deserve better! And improved controller and keyboard controls will make your game so much more accessible to audiences on all sorts of platforms (and perhaps get that Steam Deck Verified stamp for your game on Steam, too).

Besides all the features included in the pack, I wanted to highlight that I've also written some 25k+ of documentation, for the tool, complete with tons of gifs and examples. You can find it here. If you're not sure where to start with the pack, take a look at the documentation and see if any of the examples look like something you'd want in your project. Features like the controller viewport are overall just a net improvement to the usability of a viewport, and can usually replace a viewport almost one-to-one.

Finally - this ended up taking me so long to release that it fell into the time frame of the Make Visual Novel Assets Jam. So with that in mind, please rate the tool if you find it helpful so it can get more visibility! And check out the other wonderful assets made for the jam as well - VN creators are feasting ✨

If you use this tool or even just think it's neat, I'd like to know! Putting out something this big with this much work invested into it makes it all the more meaningful to see people actually excited for it and using it. Feel free to leave a comment or a post in the forums here, or find me over on Bluesky as feniksdev.com! I'd love to be tagged if you ever use a tool of mine ✨