I agree as for my own VN I started working with a custom-made engine until I completed the rollback-feature requirements; after seeing the scope of it, I checke

I agree as for my own VN I started working with a custom-made engine until I completed the rollback-feature requirements; after seeing the scope of it, I checked renPy and found it basically did everything right already. In many ways I felt that the engine was designer for beginners rather than developers in a way that are antagonistic to each others. No real debugger, no support for libraries, leading to re-implementation of basic stuff, etc. I had a love-hate relationship with it. Pseudo-python is the right term for it. In the end I was happy with the Steam features it already had to make distribution easy, although I had to actually patch the engine as the Steam session ticket function was broken.