Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Fungus is an easy-to-use, free visual novel game engine (that happens to have a visual editor). It is free and open source. Pretty good stuff. Easier to get started with than Ren'Py for me at least.
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(Easy, Free Visual Novel Game Engine for Unity)
Fungus is an easy-to-use, free visual novel game engine (that happens to have a visual editor). It is free and open source. Pretty good stuff. Easier to get started with than Ren'Py for me at least.
Subscribe for gamedev updates: bit.ly/qubodev
(Easy, Free Visual Novel Game Engine for Unity)








![Custom Imagebuttons instead of Basic Textbuttons in RenPy Main Menu Guide
Image buttons in RenPy game main menu for a more unique look without messing up the pause menu (too much).
0:00 This is what were working towards
0:10 Intro
0:22 RenPy project start
0:48 Default menu look
0:55 Menu background image
1:37 Resizing background image
2:41 Cut my image into buttons, this is my last resort
5:33 Export layers as images in GIMP
7:33 _hover versions of buttons
8:47 imagebutton instead of textbutton
10:35 get x/y position of buttons
11:40 imagebutton xpos and y position
12:32 button hover click sound*
13:40 save (load) button
15:45 vbox image position messed up fix
17:13 Shift-R (autoreload changes in RenPy)
19:16 Fixing imagebuttons on top of game menu
* You dont actually need the [ rectangular/square paranthesis ] after hovered. Those are only needed if hovering the button is supposed to call multiple (comma-separated) functions.
How to install GIMP https://youtu.be/pWCSqigOaCk
Complete click sound effect tutorial https://youtu.be/5nw8qOCjNls
Thanks to @tyras_extra_bagelization and @cannibal.chrollo for posting at https://www.reddit.com/r/RenPy/comments/nm1cec/how_do_i_make_the_buttons_like_they_are_in_the/ and for permission to use the nice menu image in a tutorial Custom Imagebuttons instead of Basic Textbuttons in RenPy Main Menu Guide](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q5svrv2KN8g/mqdefault.jpg)

