Getting started
For game writers and narrative designers. Your first story in ten minutes, then every feature of the editor — building, logic, teams, history, review, media, validation, the simulator, AI, import and export.
ChatMapper Docs
Author branching conversations on a collaborative web canvas — then ship them into your engine, the web, an LMS or a LearnBrite space.
Pick your manual
Section titled “Pick your manual”Developers
For engine and pipeline developers. The data model, the normative JSON format, runtime semantics, Lua, and integration guides for Unity, Yarn Spinner, the standalone player, SCORM/xAPI and custom runtimes.
LearnBrite authors
You build training and simulation scenarios that play in a LearnBrite space: bots on hotspots, tasks, spoken lines, gamification.
Migrating from ChatMapper Desktop
Already author in the Windows app? What moved, what is new, and how to
bring your .cmp projects across.
Game developers’ guide · LearnBrite authors’ guide · Desktop reference
What ChatMapper Cloud is
Section titled “What ChatMapper Cloud is”app.chatmapper.com is a multi-user web editor for branching dialogue. It reads and writes the same project format as the Windows ChatMapper Desktop app, so nothing you have already built is stranded.
Canvas editing
Drag-and-connect graph, keyboard tree building, inline text editing, structured auto-layout, collapse/expand, minimap.
Simulate before you ship
Real Lua, step back and forward, a Lua console, AI persona playtesting, and a full-screen play mode you can share by link.
Validation
Duplicate IDs, unreachable nodes, broken links, undefined variables, missing speakers — plus per-target preflights.
Import and export
In: .cmp, .cmpkg, XML, JSON, CSV/Excel, Twine, Arcweave, articy:draft X.
Out: JSON, XML, Unity preset, Yarn, HTML player, SCORM/xAPI, CSV, RTF, SVG, CMPKG.
Team workflow
Workspaces, teams, roles, live presence, autosave, revision history with diff and restore, reviewer notes, Trash.
AI assistance
A copilot that proposes structured edits you approve, persona playtesting, AI conversation gates, and generated audio, portraits and video.