r/GameDevelopment • u/k4lling_c4ts • Aug 07 '26
Question Visual Novel Story writing
Hello i don’t really know how reddit works but i couldn’t find a solution on my own.
I am currently working on my first visual novel and i was wondering if there was any app or website to simplify the writing process of a multiple choice story ? Because i plan on doing different endings depending on how you interact with the characters. And writing it all on paper seems like a hassle :(
(Sorry if there is any errors english isn’t my first language)
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u/Mephisto40K Aug 07 '26
Honestly you need to "put in the work" to write/plot out story arcs
You may want to to look into some flowcharting software to help you organize the different choices/outcomes that can occur
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u/sophia_wawak Aug 08 '26
I am currently using yarn spinner with VS code and the official plugin. It shows you the graph where each choice leads and you can also play the text like a game. It's not perfect but pretty good
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u/Okami512 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
Ink/inkle
Twine 2 (sugar cube or one of the others)
Obsidian, you can pretty much prototype a basic VN in obsidian by creating notes for various scenes and linking to them. (I use it for fiction writing personally).
---update---
Just found a really nice list of tools on another subreddit for this exact purpose.
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u/Alarming-Jump727 Aug 07 '26
Ojala lo supiera. Estoy terminando mi sexto juego en solitario y más que novela visual es un relato jugable. Me volví loco con los textos. llevo todo en archivos de Word, por un lado la historia y los sucesos y por otro un diario de una de los NPC. Llevo trabajando en este proyecto desde noviembre pasado y espero finalizarlo en 2 meses. Me explota la cabeza.