How-to: Run Ren'Py-based visual novels on macOS

Ren’Py is a game engine for visual novels. Sidenote: I was going to summarize what visual novels are, but I don’t think I could do it justice. I encourage you to explore the medium (or video game genre , as Wikipedia calls it). As a popular example, the Phoenix Wright games are visual novels. Ren’Py acts as a portable runtime for the game code, which is written in Python. As such, you’d expect…