Write dialogue, shape choices, manage narrative logic, localize your story and bring it into your game, all in one visual workspace.
For indie game developers, writers and narrative designers.
The workshop for your next world
Give your ideas room to grow. Let characters find their voice, choices carry weight and new storytellers join in.
Great worlds begin with a little spark.Start solo. Grow together.Dialogue, choices and game logic. Connect the moments that bring your story to life.
Portraits, details and story knowledge. Everything that makes your characters yours.
Work together as a team with GitHub sync. If edits overlap, compare changes and resolve conflicts inside VNLE.
Translate in context without rebuilding your narrative.
Explore ideas, dialogue and translations with your own ChatGPT account.
Take your story with you as open, structured JSON.
A glimpse of your next story
See dialogue, choices and languages come together in one visual workspace.
A little magic for your imagination
Talk through a twist. Find a character’s voice. Shape dialogue with your world close at hand, using your own ChatGPT account.
Your world has many voices
Translate without rebuilding your story. Work in your project, exchange an Excel package or review AI suggestions.
Your workspace, in your language. Ten interface languages planned for launch.
Welcome to the harbour.
I am Mira.
Willkommen am Hafen.
Ich bin Mira.
港へようこそ。
私はミラです。
Every choice starts somewhere
Meet Mira at the harbour. There’s a key for sale and a story waiting behind the warehouse door. Which way will you take it?
MiraMira waits by the harbour. A few coins in your pocket. A whole story ahead.
The next adventure begins in your game
Your dialogue, choices, logic and languages travel together as structured JSON. You choose the engine and make it your game.
{ JSON }Your gameConnect the JSON to your game. Guides for a wide range of engines help you get started.
Need a hand? Engine guides
For the people who build worlds
A place for the voices of our community. The feedback spaces below are placeholders until real stories arrive.
A future creator’s experience of finding the words that bring their world to life.
A place for first-hand experiences with choices, game logic and a personal project.
A future story about translating a world and working across languages.
A stage for your story
Small Places, Big Stories
Cozy Narrative Adventure Sim · In Development
Making something with VNLE? Let us discover your story.
Get in touch
Your companion, chapter by chapter
Find your first steps, look up a tool or take an example apart. The Wiki is here whenever you need it.
Open the VNLE WikiBefore you set off
VNLE is a visual narrative and dialogue editor for games. Write branching conversations, manage characters and narrative logic, work on translations and export your story as JSON.
Yes. VNLE is for individual creators as well as teams. You can write and organize your narrative in the visual editor. Connecting the exported JSON to a game is a separate step, with guides and examples to help.
VNLE exports structured JSON rather than an engine-specific project. You can write an integration for an engine that can read this data. Your game controls dialogue presentation and gameplay. The Wiki includes guides for major engines, with practical examples and explanations of the JSON format.
No. The AI Assistant is optional. You can write, organize, localize and export your stories without enabling it. Using the assistant requires signing in with ChatGPT.
The story structure is shared across languages. You work on translated text in VNLE or exchange an Excel translation package, then play through the story in your chosen language.
The interface currently supports English and German. For launch, we plan English, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, French and Polish. Interface language and the languages of your story are separate.
Steam is the destination for VNLE. The final store link will be added here.
Write it. Branch it. Localize it. Bring it to life.
This preview does not have its final Steam or video details yet. The link will be added before launch.
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