SJ Longthorne

Me, a games writer: I wish I had something like Word where I could write freely, except that it recognised components of branching narrative and would format it for me, tell me where my logic is broken and spit out a tree-style diagram (or Unity plug-in?) at the end.

Maybe a stupid suggestion but have you tried working in yED? It's a flowgraph tools that so far is honestly the only way I've found of laying out decent branching dialogue.

I haven' heard of this, but I'll take a look. I don't want to be making the flow diagrams as I go, though; I wanna be writing straight into a text editor as I currently do and having it spew out the diagram for me. Not that I actually need the diagram, but it's a nice to have.

Ah. Then it's going to be literally the opposite of what you want. Do you not find that without doing the flow as you go along the whole thing bloats up massively and doesn't connect?