Ripple Effect, a branching narrative graph tool

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The application represents projects as ordinary folders: boards use JSON, passages use Markdown, and scripts use Python, with stable IDs and sorted keys intended to keep version-control diffs readable. Its graph editor can trace every route between passages, span linked boards, and execute a playthrough whose checkpoint is a node ID. Translation files sit beside the source passage, and the page says stale or untranslated choices are explicitly reported rather than silently falling back.