CloudNovel.net is a website for creating, publishing, and playing online visual novels and other story based games. You can create dating sims or story based games without coding. We have over 1 million users.
CloudNovel was better 4 years ago when you could just make a game. Now everything's premium and it's so hard to manage what you're doing. Just learn to code and use Ren'Py. You'll thank me later
@matt_chester Not really, making a game now is the same as making a game before, but better, of course. Plus, with constant Game Jams, you get all the points necessary to acquire the premium features. I never bought anything there with real money and didn't have any issues making my games, Ren'py is more robust, sure, but that's because Ren'py not only allows for coding but has been in the market for several years, has a gigantic user base and is the "mainstream visual novel engine". A comparison between the two is not exactly fair right now.
@matt_chester I use premium simply for the few number of benefits it offers. 4 years ago CN didn't have hardly ANY of the amazing features it currently has, and the only features that aren't free are features that would make massive VN's, like mine, easier to manage. If you're making a small VN just to tell a short story premium wouldn't be necessary.
@matt_chester I have been a CloudNovel users since it has been founded and while it was still in beta state. From what I know, whatever that were available for free 4 years ago remains free today. If you can make a game for free 4 years ago then you still can make a game for free today.
Premium, in my opinion is just additional features that will ease the work progress but not neccessarily needed to complete a game.
Hey there, I created this website because I didn't want to learn coding to make my games. So, I made a game engine that lets people create games without ever having to learn coding. I'm proud to say we have over 1 million users. There happens to be a lot of people who want to make games without coding.
Did you make Cafe Rouge? I played it in high school, and it was fun. I think that's how I got on the mailing with this link. I hope all your dreams come true!
@mimsmere3 Sonya, the creator of Cloud Novel, did make Cafe Rouge :) In fact from what I understand, she is currently in the process of remastering it!! Go check it out :)
I have heard a lot about Cloud Novel but here is an underlying truth. The CEO went out of their way to hack a game creators account and this game they have been working on for 3 years, and steal it basically. The CEO hacked the creators account, changed their username, and even edited their wording to frame thd creator for bad things. The CEO is obsessed with Elon Musk and called his autistic child retarded which is a nono since I am also autistic. I have been wanting to expose this ever since I learned about this and I am speaking up about it now. There have been several cases of the CEO and staff hacking and atealing users games and creations! DO NOT USE CLOUD NOVEL!! PROTECT YOUR CONTENT!
I used this website several years ago as a pre-teen to try and make my own visual novels. I forgot about the website, but never thought to unsubscribe from the website's mailing list.
As of today, 4/27/23, the creator of this website appears to be experiencing a psychotic break. She has sent several bizarre, unprofessional emails via the mailing list in the past few days, some of which contain vulgar language (including ableist slurs) and pornographic content from the CloudNovel Discord. On her public Twitter, she is talking about Silicon Valley and Coronavirus-related conspiracy theories. It appears that similar to when I used it, a significant portion of the userbase is made up of children, which makes this shift in content even more disturbing.
I cannot comment on the technical issues with the website and other problems involving the developer's conduct on the Discord server itself, as I am not a part of the server nor have I used the website in a long time. However, I would not suggest that anyone (especially minors) use this service until the developer gets the help she needs.
Well well well, where do I start? The doxxing, the stealing, and the falsified banning. Sonya is quote unquote "not in any realtionship with elon" and two seconds later shes calling his son the R slur. Absolutely pathetic for a CEO, Sonya needs to grow up. I personally have been banned from cloudnovel myself for making a callout post for everything she did, and blocked me from both Twitter accs. DO NOT USE CLOUDNOVEL NOR SUPPORT SONYA.
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