Horde Studio 11.0.0

This release turns Worlds into a portable visual sandbox while making cinematic conversations clearer, more personal and easier to author.

Visual worlds

Added optional Classic and Cinematic world presentation modes.
Added portable per-location backgrounds, NPC portraits and map skins.
Added upload, generation, replacement and cleanup tools for world media.
Embedded media now survives world exports, imports, full backups and restored saves.
Added searchable provider-aware world image-model selection, with Nano Banana 2 Lite as the recommended default.
Added responsive cinematic layouts that preserve the existing gameplay HUD and semantic map.

Added portrait dialogue cards for recognized NPC speech.
Added a configurable dialogue color to every NPC.
Added persona colors and player dialogue cards using the selected persona name and avatar.
Replaced fragile quote matching with discourse-aware speaker detection across paragraphs and multiple quotes.
Added explicit screenplay-style Name: dialogue support.
Retired the unfinished Visual Novel option; legacy saves automatically fall back to Cinematic.

Added a complete small-town workplace-comedy sandbox as an included showcase world.
Includes 23 locations, 8 scheduled autonomous NPCs, 7 starting lives, 6 factions and 15 lore entries.
Includes 13 embedded cinematic assets covering the office, major rooms and the full principal cast.
Added migration logic that upgrades the bundled world without overwriting creator-customized NPC colors.

Replaced major free-form model fields with searchable provider catalogs while preserving exact custom model IDs.
Added smarter controls for schedule days, location metadata, starting lives, stat overrides and colors.
Added dedicated visual-media and smart-input regression audits.
Added normalized image uploads and optimized generated media to keep portable worlds practical.

Added a cached, non-blocking GitHub Release update check.
New-version notices provide View update and Later actions and remain silent offline.
Added local bridge routes for the included world, diagnostics, favicon and portable world download.
Added an automated tag-based GitHub Release workflow.