About Nightwriter

Why does Nightwriter exist?

Nightwriter exists because nobody seems to be building for the people I have in mind: a mother or father making up stories for their kids, a grandparent who tells the grandkids a different version every time, a student with a whole world in their head. People with a story to tell, and a reader they want to hand the choices to.

Anyone can open Word and write a story. Anyone can pull up Twine or Ren'Py and start on a branching one. But when that branching story wants to become a visual novel, with scenes, characters, and choices that matter, those tools either ask you to learn to code or stop short of what you need.

Nightwriter is for storytellers, not programmers. The aim is to stay with you from the first word all the way to a finished story someone else can play. We're not at that finish line yet: today you can write, stage, and play, and publishing is next. Plenty of writers out there are already ambitious. My ambition is to give the ones who just need the right tool a way to get it all written down.