visual-novel

SKILL.md

Visual Novel

A playbook for visual novels — the branching script, the presentation (text box, characters,
backgrounds), choices, and the quality-of-life systems players expect (save anywhere, backlog,
skip, auto). This is a compositional skill: it drives a dialogue engine and a UI layer. It
does not re-teach the dialogue engine or UI nodes; it defines the script model and the player
conveniences that make a VN pleasant to read.

When to use

Use when the game is mostly reading branching text with character art and backgrounds:
visual novel, dating sim, branching interactive fiction, story-choice game.

Use when designing a choice/route structure, story flags, or VN conveniences (backlog,
skip, auto-advance, save-anywhere).

When not to use: dialogue as one feature inside a larger game → rpg consuming
dialogue-systems. Card/board play → other genres. For the branching-script engine itself,
use dialogue-systems (Ink / Yarn Spinner).