Your story, branch by branch

Draw a conversation on a canvas: drag a role onto it to start a line, drag from a port to connect two cards, and let Auto-Layout tidy the graph. Roles keep a scene reusable, since a role can be one particular character, one picked from a pool, or whoever started the conversation.

• Choices the player sees greyed out until they open, or doesn't see at all
• Checks a companion makes for the player, who still picks the line
• Timed choices that fall back to a default when the time runs out
• Interrupts for when the player walks away mid-scene, such as “Hey, where are you going?”
• Shop, trainer and quest-board menus the game fills from its own lists
• Reusable pieces, such as a haggle or a goodbye, dropped into any conversation

A quest is a graph of entries, objectives and endings, and several objectives can be open at once. The journal writes itself from what each objective adds as it opens and as it closes, with entries that can change with what the player did.

• Objective sets that need all of them, some of them, or a rule of your own
• Progress counters in the journal, such as 3 of 5 enemies defeated
• Several ways into one quest, such as a notice board or an overheard rumor
• Bonus objectives, and secret ones the journal reveals only once they're done
• Repeatable quests with a cooldown, and conditions that fail a quest

The story is one graph of chapters with one current chapter, moved on by transitions you condition and rank. Endings can be victories, defeats or neutral; a story can be a tragedy that ends without a win, or a sandbox that never ends.

• Quest windows that set which chapters offer a quest, and whether one still open when its window closes is kept or fails
• Epilogues that change with what the player did
• A win that ends the game, or rolls the credits and lets play go on
• New Game Plus, with what a second run keeps, such as levels, gear or the endings seen
• A story preview that puts the story in a chapter, steps a transition and shows which quests open and which fail

Translate dialogue, quest journals, chapters, place names and the glossary into as many languages as you need. Each language lives in its own files, and the game falls back to the source language wherever a translation is missing.

• A working language for conversations, in which the editor writes that language's text and the scene's structure stays locked
• Name and keyword tokens kept as written in every language, so a translated line still points at the right character
• Renames reach every language, so translated lines keep naming the right roles, characters and terms
• Voice files in a folder per language, picked by the player's language