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Many game engines are built on slow, aging systems — forcing developers through complex toolchains just to ship a simple visual novel. Pixi’VN changes that by bringing video games into the web application ecosystem: write your game with a plain text editor, deploy anywhere, and let AI do the heavy lifting.

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Create it with one command.

No dedicated software to install that weighs gigabytes — just Node.js and an advanced text editor like VS Code. See Getting Started for more details.

Try it out

npm create pixi-vn@latest

Visual Studio Code

New Game launched!
Terminal
npm create pixi-vn@latest ◇ Project name│ My Game◆ Select the type of game you want to create:│ ● Visual Novel│ ○ Point & Click
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Choose your language.

You don't need to be a programmer, just a great story in mind. Let AI handle UI changes and create # Hashtag Commands you can run directly from ink.

=== start ===
# show image bg bg01-hallway
# show imagecontainer james [m01-body m01-eyes-smile m01-mouth-neutral01] xAlign 0.5 yAlign 1 with movein direction right
james: You're my roommate's replacement, huh?
# request input
What is your name?
# rename mc {_input_value_}
* [Nice to meet you!]
    -> nice_meeting
* [I'd rather not say.]
    -> silent_response

=== nice_meeting ===
james: Nice to meet you, [mc]!
-> END

=== silent_response ===
james: ...Suit yourself.
-> END
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Ship it anywhere.

Your game isn't limited to the browser. Thanks to Tauri, which taps into Rust for insane native performance, you can distribute it everywhere: desktop, mobile, and every platform below.

Built on giants

Every core feature is a thin wrapper around the best, most popular libraries for games and the web — PixiJS for rendering, Motion for animation, all wired together through Vite plugins. Everything else follows your framework of choice, while text styling stays independent with Markdown. One flow for everything, so building and maintaining your project stays cheap.

Built for the AI era

The whole wiki is written for LLMs, and every library ships with full JSDoc. Engines built entirely on code instead of a visual editor play perfectly with AI — write games faster with Codex, Claude Code, Cursor or GitHub Copilot, and generate assets with ComfyUI and ComfyUI VNCCS.

One design language

The interface speaks a single visual language built on shadcn/ui, Tailwind CSS and Base UI — consistent, accessible components wherever you look.

Ready to come alive

Drop in ready-made components for Spine 2D, Live2D and more to bring your characters to life, without writing the integration yourself.

Made Possible by You.

Pixi’VN is 100% powered by passion and open source community.

Contributors

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Translators

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