NovaMark Docs

Welcome to the NovaMark documentation.

NovaMark is a scripting language and runtime system for text adventures, visual novels, and interactive narrative games.

If you do not come from a programming background, the new documentation structure is designed to answer questions in this order:

• What is NovaMark?
• What should I learn first?
• What do scenes, dialogue, choices, and variables mean?
• What belongs to the script, and what belongs to the client UI?

Choose your entry point

1. For Creators

If you want to write stories, characters, choices, and checks, start here.

You will learn:

• how to write your first story
• how to structure scenes
• how to understand state, variables, and items
• how to write choices, branches, and checks

Recommended entry points:

• What is NovaMark
• Your First Story
• State, Variables, and Items
• Choices, Branches, and Checks

2. For Platform / Rendering / Distribution Integrators

If you are building a renderer, a runtime integration, or a game delivery pipeline, this is the better starting point.

You likely care about:

• how the VM advances
• how runtime state is exported
• how the host and script split responsibilities
• how to use C API / WASM / templates

This entry point focuses on those topics.

3. Reference

Use Reference when you already know what you want to look up.

You can find:

• syntax reference
• API reference
• runtime state fields
• project configuration

4. Glossary

Glossary explains recurring NovaMark terms.

For example:

• scene
• label
• check
• snapshot
• host
• rendering hint