VisualNovelEditors

VisualNovelEditors is a cross-platform software suite designed to assist creators in planning, scripting, and compiling visual novels. It provides an integrated workspace that combines a script editor, a scene designer, and an asset manager, enabling authors to organize dialogue, branching decisions, and media in a single project file. The project-centric approach aims to separate story design from engine integration while offering direct export capabilities to multiple visual novel engines.

Features include a visual scripting interface for branching narrative, a timeline-based scene editor for sequencing dialogue, choices, and events, a searchable asset library with tagging and metadata, localization tools, and a built-in preview mode. The application supports collaboration through version control integration and can be extended with plugins. Projects are stored in a human-readable JSON-based format with optional binary assets.

Architecture is modular and plugin-friendly, designed to run on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Core components expose a scripting API for automation and customization. While it provides its own lightweight runtime for testing, VisualNovelEditors emphasizes interoperability and can export data to engines such as Ren'Py and TyranoScript, among others.

Development and licensing: the project is maintained by an open community of contributors under a permissive open-source license. It targets indie developers, students, and hobbyists who want to prototype and organize visual novels before migrating to a dedicated game engine. See also: Ren'Py, TyranoScript, visual novel authoring tools.