Product Roadmap
Dialogue Forge Roadmap
Where we've been, where we're going. Track shipped features and upcoming work.
Editor Foundation
Core visual dialogue editor with graph workflows, preview, templates, and runtime export.
- Visual graph editor
- Character / Action / Start nodes
- Branching dialogue flows
- Import / export (.forge.json)
- Preview mode
- Templates
- Undo / redo
- Validation system
Narrative Events
Multi-entry dialogue flows, runtime triggers, and reusable templates.
- Start nodes
- Multiple dialogue entry points
- Trigger categories
- Chained event execution
- Jump workflows
- Production templates
Responsive Experience
Touch-first editing and mobile support across the entire editor.
- Responsive layout
- Mobile editing
- Bottom sheets
- Touch interactions
- Mobile preview
- Tablet support
Cloud Workspace
Projects move beyond local storage with accounts, cloud sync and workspace management.
- Google / GitHub auth
- Cloud projects
- Autosave
- Project dashboard
- Local → cloud migration
- Freemium foundations
Gameplay State System
Dialogue becomes gameplay-aware through variables and conditional logic.
- Variables
- Conditions
- Conditional branches
- Runtime evaluation
- State preview
- Edge expressions
- Quest flags
Dynamic Dialogue & Advanced Variables
Characters can now reference variables directly in dialogue, making conversations react naturally to player choices, names, and game state.
- Use variables directly in dialogue text
- Player name support
- Dynamic text replacement
- New variable types
- Advanced condition operators
- Improved variable editor
- Live preview of variable values
- Runtime interpolation engine
- Better validation
Narrative Database
Reusable narrative assets shared across projects.
- Character library
- Portrait management
- Voice metadata
- Global updates
- Reusable archetypes
- Character relationships
- Tagging system
Quest & Narrative Systems
Expand beyond dialogue into narrative design workflows.
- Quest graphs
- Timeline view
- Quest dependencies
- Scene organization
- Narrative tags
- Story chapters
- Progress tracking
Collaboration Workspace
Narrative teams work together inside Dialogue Forge.
- Shared projects
- Comments
- Review mode
- Version history
- Read-only links
- Roles
Runtime Ecosystem
Dialogue Forge becomes a deployable runtime platform.
- dialogue-forge-runtime
- React player
- Unity SDK
- Godot plugin
- Unreal bridge
- Runtime debugger
- Live preview player
Analytics & QA
Validate and optimize narrative structures.
- Unreachable nodes
- Path analysis
- Branch complexity
- Missing endings
- Dialogue analytics
- Heatmaps
- Validation reports
AI Narrative Assistant
AI-assisted narrative workflows.
- Dialogue generation
- Branch suggestions
- Tone rewriting
- Localization
- Character consistency
- Quest generation
- Narrative summaries
Narrative Platform
Long-term vision: complete narrative workflow ecosystem.
- Marketplace
- Template sharing
- Team workspaces
- Plugins
- Voice pipelines
- Visual scripting
- Mod support
Characters can now reference variables directly in dialogue, making conversations react naturally to player choices, names, and game state.
- Use variables directly in dialogue text
- Player name support
- Dynamic text replacement
- New variable types
- Advanced condition operators
- Improved variable editor
- Live preview of variable values
- Runtime interpolation engine
- Better validation
Planned(5)