Monologue

What Monologue is

Monologue is a dialogue editor for creating branching conversations in narrative-driven games. Its node-based interface lets authors arrange dialogue flows, add lines and translations, include music, and run or debug dialogue from any node. Projects can also contain characters, items, variables, backgrounds, and audio files alongside dialogue. The maker describes the editor as engine agnostic: projects are archives of JSON documents that a game engine or framework can read with an interpreter; Godot Engine is also listed for game engine support. Monologue is open source under the MIT License and runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, with downloads including x64 and ARM64 builds. The maker lists visual novels, RPG and adventure dialogue, interactive fiction, and narrative prototyping as use cases. The project is marked in development, with version 3.0.0-beta2 downloads listed. The maker says version 3 will not be backward compatible with older versions and that a converter might be attempted if needed. Atomic Junky is credited as maker, with RailKill and Jeremi Biernacki as contributors.