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After several months of continuous development, my story game framework has finally reached a relatively complete stage that feels stable enough for long-term iteration.

The original reason for building this project was actually very simple:

Every time I started a new story-based game, I had to rewrite a large amount of gameplay logic from scratch.

Especially things like:

• branching routes
• state management
• story flow control
• condition checks

The amount of repeated work became increasingly frustrating.

So eventually I decided to build a truly data-driven framework for story games instead.

At this point, the framework can already create new story-based games without modifying the core codebase.

Most content can now be built simply through configuration files and game data.

Currently tested platforms:

• Windows
• Android

I also plan to test HTML5 export later.

The entire project is built with JAVA + LibGDX, so overall extensibility and cross-platform support are relatively flexible.

Current implemented systems include:

• branching story control
• conditional logic
• data-driven story flow
• localization / multilingual support
• local save system
• Supabase authentication & cloud saves
• video playback support
• configurable state systems

At this stage, it already covers most common requirements for:

• visual novels
• galgames
• interactive drama games
• story-driven interactive projects

One thing I’m especially satisfied with is that many gameplay structures that previously required repeated code modifications can now be handled entirely through data configuration.

Including:

• story progression
• character states
• value checks
• branch unlocking
• event triggers
• conditional flow control

If special gameplay systems are needed later, the JAVA + LibGDX foundation also makes custom feature expansion relatively straightforward.

For video playback, the framework currently uses gdx-video.

So far it has been tested successfully on PC and Android.

HTML5 should theoretically work as well, although iOS has not been fully tested yet.