Welcome to the Visionaire Studio Wiki

What is Visionaire Studio?	It's great for beginners, yet powerful enough for professional developers!
Visionaire Studio is a powerful multi-platform game engine specifically designed for the creation of 2D and 2.5D point & click adventure games. It allows virtually everyone to develop games, as no coding is required. The only limitation is your imagination! Bring your game to life in a matter of hours or days, instead of weeks or months. What would usually take you ages to achieve via programming can be done much faster due to our event system which allows you to effortlessly combine pre-made actions, queries and code.
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Manual

This is the (semi-)official documentation for Visionaire Studio, created with input from members of the Visionaire community.

General

• Introduction: What is Visionaire Studio all about?
• Getting Started with the Visionaire Studio Editor

Game Creation

• Action System
  • List of Action Parts
• Conditions and Values
• Working with Text
• Game Properties
• Scenes and Objects
• Menus
• Animations
• Characters
• Interfaces
• Fonts
• Cursors
• Items
• File Formats and Encoding
  • Image Encoding
  • Audio Encoding
  • Video Encoding

Advanced Features

• Particle System
• Audio System
• Curves
• 3D Models (not up-to-date)
• Shaders
• Box2D
• Steam and GOG APIs
• Team Files
• Plugins

Test, Debug and Release

• Player Console (not up-to-date)
• Ini File
• Build your Game (Compiling)

Scripting

Please refer to the official Visionaire Studio Luadocs for any script related topics not (yet) covered here in the Wiki.

• Scripting Basics
• Data Structure
• Commands (Methods and Fields)
  • Global Commands
  • VisionaireObject Commands
  • Graphics Commands
  • System Commands
• Reference Sheet: Keycodes & Modifiers
• Ilios & Visual Scripting

Additional Content

Here you can find tutorials, scripts, and other useful resources created by various members of the Visionaire Studio Team & its users.

Tutorials

• General Tutorials for Visionaire Studio 5
• Legacy Tutorials (may be outdated, but worth a look)
• Learn Some Lua: The Basics

Scripts

• Community-made Lua Scripts
• Shader Toolkit

Downloads

• Templates / Demo Projects
• Action Part Plugins

Tips & Tricks

• Naming Conventions and Structure
• Get More out of Your Animations
• An Event in Time: About Events, Loops, & Timing
• Approaching Sound Design
• Game Optimization
• Remote Debugging

About Game Development

• Motivation, Inspiration and Focus
• Riding the Waves: A Workflow Tip Guide
• Marketing and Promotion

References

We have many great references for games & studios utilizing Visionaire Studio as their game engine. Get a glimpse of what can be achieved through this compiled index of games made with Visionaire Studio.

Goodbye Deponia (Daedalic Entertainment)

Lucy Dreaming (Tall Story Games)

The Night of the Rabbit (Daedalic Entertainment)

Memoria (Daedalic Entertainment)

Paradigm (Jacob Janerka)

Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes (Daedalic Entertainment)

Me and the Robot (The Argonauts)

STASIS (THE BROTHERHOOD)

ASA: A Space Adventure (Simon Says: Watch! Play!)

Four Last Things (Joe Richardson)

Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth (Daedalic Entertainment)

Midnight at the Celestial Palace (Orrery Games)