Sharing a Visual Novel
Once you've finished creating a visual novel, you may want to share it with others.
This involves compiling your visual novel into one file with a .lvna extension.
In LVNAuth, simply click on the Compile button to save your visual novel to a lvna file.
Compiled lvna files contain all the images, audio, dialogue text that your visual novel needs in one file.
It's important to note that compiled lvna files are not encrypted. Compiling your visual novel to a .lvna file does not protect your images or audio or dialogue text from being extracted and getting copied. It is simply a convenient way to put all your visual novel resources into one file.
After your viewers have obtained a compiled .lvna file of your visual novel, LVNAuth will be needed to run the visual novel.
Currently, LVNAuth works in Linux. However, a Windows version is planned.
Last updated: Tue 24 February 2026