Our focus for September 2026 is Candy Dialogue Engine 1.1.4:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It will bring many bug fixes, error safeguards and code improvements, so we’re making it a priority. It will also add a few features that we felt were important. No ETA: we’re currently testing the changes, and depending what further issues we uncover we might finish this month or in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Candy Dialogue Creator will receive a minor update to 1.1.1 in order to match some of the changes\/additions in Candy Dialogue Engine 1.1.4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After that, in Q4 2026:<\/strong> This is a lot of work, so some of these will likely need to be delayed to Q1 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Planned Updates<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Candy Dialogue Engine<\/strong> Candy Dialogue Creator<\/strong> Future Releases<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Minor Asset – Candy LLM<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Roadmap Our focus for September 2026 is Candy Dialogue Engine 1.1.4: It will bring many bug fixes, error safeguards and code improvements, so we’re making it a priority. It will also add a few features that we felt were important. No ETA: we’re currently testing the changes, and depending what further issues we uncover we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2869","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":91,"href":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6071,"href":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2869\/revisions\/6071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2022 Candy Dialogue Creator 1.1.2: we’re not getting bug reports and we’re not encountering bugs when we use it, but there’s still more polishing work to do on it.
\u2022 Probably Candy Dialogue Engine 1.1.5.
\u2022 Finish and release Candy LLM: we’d rather not rush it.
\u2022 Start a game project: this would give us an opportunity to create art assets to replace placeholder ai-gen art in our screenshots, an opportunity to make better demo videos of our add-ons, and a chance to test them and uncover further edge case bugs.
\u2022 Publish our products on itch.io, and also sell directly through our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Version 1.1.4<\/span>:
\u2022 Large amount of bug fixes across all features.
\u2022 New feature: \u00a7Return commands can return from multiple \u00a7Bridge commands at once.
\u2022 New feature: Interrupt (end) dialogues externally (e.g. player input or game events).
\u2022 New feature: Toggle whether dialogue text\/UI clear after each line.
\u2022 New feature: Exported variables to control how dialogue transitions are displayed in the dialogue history.
\u2022 New feature: Disable debug prints.
\u2022 New feature: Change or hide the End Of Line String after dialogue advances, to show input is no longer required for lines that remain visible on screen.
Version 1.1.x<\/span>:
\u2022 Function references: same as variable references, but call a function and use the returned value as data.
\u2022 Commands for modifying dialogue settings (alternative to using \u00a7Set).
\u2022 Improve the performance of the image frame animation feature.
\u2022 Special commands for Candy LLM, Candy Triggers and Candy Loot.
\u2022 Provide ready-made code for Godot’s native TTS system.
\u2022 More override options for UI elements, actors and spoken lines.
\u2022 Add optional substitution_symbol_end.
Version 1.x.x<\/span>:
\u2022 Layered Portraits and VN Busts, with animation compatibility.
\u2022 Per-line\/file override options for sprite animation speed.
\u2022 Writing speed modifier tags in spoken text.
\u2022 Variable assignment, function call and signal emission in spoken text.
\u2022 More dialogue modes in the engine code.
\u2022 More ready-made assets, such as UI elements, optional utility functions, player-facing option menu, etc.
\u2022 Candy Tools integration for added convenience features.
Constantly ongoing:<\/span>
\u2022 Bug fixes.
\u2022 More function hooks and signals.
\u2022 More\/improved debug prints.
\u2022 More commands.
\u2022 More customization\/preference settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Version 1.x.x<\/span>:
\u2022 UI translations.
\u2022 More data import options from Candy DE.
\u2022 Keyboard shortcuts customization.
\u2022 UI colors customization.
\u2022 More accessibility options.
\u2022 UI for editing localization dictionaries.
\u2022 More features for teams\/studios where multiple people work together.
\u2022 Node graph to visualize the dialogue structure (not guaranteed – we’ll need to create an algorithm that can arrange Blocks neatly in the graph).
\u2022 Tool for adding custom commands (not guaranteed – we want to do it, but we need to carefully figure out the implementation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Candy LLM will act as a bridge between your projects and an LLM API of your choosing.
\u2022 All API and LLM models will be supported.
\u2022 Create and save presets for API and LLM models.
\u2022 Insert custom information inside prompts.
\u2022 Customize sampling data to modify LLM performance (e.g. temperature, max tokens, etc.)
\u2022 Support multiple connections and simultaneous LLM queries.
\u2022 Included demo scene for testing and tutorial purposes.
\u2022 Optional integration with Candy Dialogue Engine.
Note that Candy LLM will not craft prompts or use the LLM outputs in your project: it’s only job is to create a connection between your project and an LLM, and pass data between them. Prompt crafting and output usage are project-specific anyway.
Candy LLM is mostly complete and requires testing. We expect to release it Q4 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n