Thank you so much for the incredible support and the generous donation! Reading your enthusiasm completely made my day. Your adult RPG / dating sim / card battle hybrid sounds like an epic adventure, and it’s exactly the kind of ambitious project I’d love to see brought to life in Capsule! I must admit I've played a considerable number of hybrid visual novels for adults. The card game style (for battles, for example, or for creating conditioning builds) is a fairly niche type of game, and it's not the easiest to make. I wish you the best in your game creation!

Naninovel is an excellent choice for those who are proficient in Unity. Capsule doesn't have Unity's technical power and never will, remaining a monolithic engine. And besides, I'm not trying to compete with engines like Naninovel, which is based on Unity, or DiaLogic, which is based on Godot; they're not targeting the same audience at all. Capsule isn't limited to games; it can be used for interactive lessons, presentations, and more.

As a narrative/RPG engine, Capsule already surpasses well-established engines like TyranoBuilder, Visual Novel Maker, Twine, Narrat, and others. Ren'py remains technically more powerful with its Python code, which unlocks almost unlimited capabilities, but it doesn't measure up in terms of portability, ease of use, security, project management, native features, and even longevity (since an HTML game created with Capsule will still work in 2050). Not to mention that the CapsuleScript DSL is currently the only one that allows for the automated creation of game architectures via simple LLMs.

And this is just version 1.9.0; version 2.0 will add an incredible array of features while increasing stability and power, always keeping in mind the need to make game creation accessible to both beginners and professionals.

You'll be happy to know that several of the features you listed are already in your inventory:

• Animations: The engine features a built-in Sprite-Sheet Animation system that natively supports variable FPS, looping, and different playback states. (And yes, optimized formats like WebP work perfectly!). It's also easy to use animations created in Spine or Inochi2D. Instead of exporting Spine's native JSON/binary format, for example, you export the animation as a PNG image sequence. You then use a third-party tool (like TexturePacker or Free Texture Packer) to group this sequence into a single grid of images.
• Custom UI / Stats: The HUD Variables Display system allows you to dynamically show custom variables (like Money, HP, Mana, Stamina) directly on-screen with different visual styles and icons. I plan to make it even more customizable for even more personalized placements or the import of your own background images to customize this interface.
• SFX & Music: BGM and SFX run on separate channels, and the engine manages overlapping sound effects smoothly.

Regarding your audio requests: currently, the engine operates on two primary audio tracks (Music and SFX) with their own volume sliders in the options, alongside the TTS features (in V2, not released yet). Expanding this into a dedicated 4-channel mixer (BGM, Looping Ambient, Voice, and One-off SFX) with independent on-the-fly volume sliders is a fantastic idea. I am definitely adding this to the roadmap to fully support proper voice-acted VNs!

I would absolutely love to have you onboard as a beta-tester! Feedback from developers pushing the boundaries of traditional visual novels is exactly what I need to make Capsule a true game-changer. Let's keep in touch!

Hi Corvi, thanks for your feedback, i hope you have fun with the engine !

The exported projects all have an obfuscated section, a built-in anti-cheat system.

This makes the file incompatible with any attempt at a complete translation and therefore with importing it into the engine. I wouldn't be able to translate one of these files myself. That's why you absolutely must use the save function. Exporting is only for publishing the game.

For debugging, you already have logic preview, project health, and development mode. No other engine offers this natively.

V2 with include a resolution function to go from 16:9 to 9:16 and even 9:20.

Until then you have to find this in the exported game :

#game-viewport { position: absolute; width: 1920px; height: 1080px;

And replace it by :

#game-viewport { position: absolute; width: 1080px; height: 2400px;

Yes, unfortunately Capsule 1.9.0 is not yet optimized for this type of format, so it won't necessarily be very intuitive.

Hello from France! 🌸 Thank you so much for trying out Capsule VN Engine, it's awesome to see it reach creators in Ukraine!

Currently, the engine defaults to the classic visual novel landscape format (16:9, 1920x1080). However, since Capsule exports everything into a single, clean HTML file, you can easily "hack" it to fit a 9:20 vertical smartphone format!

Here is the quick ninja way to do it:

1. Tweak the Engine's CSS Once you export your game, open the .html file with any text editor (like Notepad or VS Code). Look near the top for the <style> tags. Find the #game-viewport rule and change the resolution:

• Change: width:1920px; height:1080px;
• To: width:1080px; height:2400px; (This gives you a perfect 9:20 ratio!)

2. Adjust the UI Because the screen is now narrower, you might want to find the #dialog-box in the CSS and adjust its width and bottom margins so the text box fits perfectly on a vertical screen like a modern Otome game. 📱

3. Use Portrait Backgrounds Simply upload vertical backgrounds (1080x2400) directly into the engine while building your story. They will look stretched in the editor, but will display perfectly in your final modified HTML file!

I am definitely taking notes and planning to add a native "Vertical Mode" switch inside the editor for a future update. I would love to see the vertical novel you create with it! ✨

Hello!

Thank you so much for your interest and for reaching out. You are absolutely right—version 1.8.32 introduced a lot of powerful mechanics (like the inventory, QTEs, and advanced logic) to help creators build rich, anime-style visual novels, and proper documentation is the next logical step!

Right now, I am looking into the best way to provide this. I am planning to create a comprehensive guide to cover all the features.

In the meantime, don't hesitate to rely on the tooltips available inside the editor (especially in Expert Mode), and feel free to ask any specific questions you might have right here in the comments. I'd be more than happy to help you figure out a specific feature!

Happy creating! 🚀