Arrow
Game Narrative Design Tool (by mhgolkar)
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Twine, a tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories (by klembot)
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| 795 | 1,794 | |
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| 7.1 | 8.5 | |
| about 2 months ago | 11 days ago | |
| GDScript | TypeScript | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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Arrow
Posts with mentions or reviews of Arrow.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-06.
- Godot 4.1 Is Released
- Graphical Interface to create dialogs, choices etc. with custom nodes
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Arrow v2 is out!
One way is to create your narrative in Arrow, then export and use it as a database for your runtime/interpreter. The official HTML-JS runtime is based on the same idea. Arrow uses this runtime to create playable exports (mainly for play-test and review). Yet it means you can use this runtime (with customization) to export text-adventures directly from the editor as well. Another way is to create multiple chapters, scenes, etc. and export them as assets for your game (e.g. each scene or branch as a dialog-tree for your RPG).
Source | Download | Web-App | Project's Wiki
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Any Tips on Good Narrative Design Software for a Nonprogrammer?
JSON is just a text file with some specific conventions to be easily readable by other programs. Though, I took a look at the Inky's JSON export, and it's kinda convoluted. In your case Arrow might be a better fit. You can also consult with your programmer, since he'll be the person implementing your dialogue in game.
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Tools/Method for planning game
I use Arrow for dialogue/scene planning.
- Just a reminder! If you need to create dialogs check out Arrow! I almost like it as much as Articy Draft.
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Markup Text Editor using Godot; It looks like one of the most useless app out there, but I added some features that made it less useless :)
For others who are curious, here is the Arrow GitHub repository.
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Arrow: Game Narrative Design Tool
Arrow v1.0.1 is released and now has the textual save preference I promised.
New release of Arrow (v1.0.1) is out.
twinejs
Posts with mentions or reviews of twinejs.
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- Show HN: Twine – Gorgeous open source multiplatform RSS app
- Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
- Ask HN: Software to Develop Interactive Stories?
- Suggestions: A simple human-readable format for suggesting changes to text files
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About Text based games,basically
There's ChoiceScript by Choice Of Games. It's more along the lines of Choose Your Own Adventure. If you're hoping to make something with a fair amount of random events, you might want to check out Twine.
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Harlowe 3.3.7 & Tweego
I'm trying to update tweego with the story format harlowe 3.3.7. I've copied the .json and .icon files for Harlowe 3.3.7 from here : https://github.com/klembot/twinejs/tree/develop/public/story-formats
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cRPG's often have poor writing. Why is that?
Here are 2 interactive story game engines: * https://www.renpy.org/ * https://twinery.org/
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tobyFoxIsWild
You use something like https://twinery.org/ for creating the dialogues, and then write abstract code to handle that.
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I feel like im too dumb to make my own game
The engine here https://twinery.org/
- How to start making video games?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Arrow and twinejs you can also consider the following projects:
awesome-godot - A curated list of free/libre plugins, scripts and add-ons for Godot
RenPy - The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
gdext - Rust bindings for Godot 4
ink - inkle's open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative.
Lorien - Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app for Windows, Linux and macOS. Made with Godot.
YarnSpinner - Yarn Spinner is a tool for building interactive dialogue in games!
extensions - Inform 7 extensions -- some may be ready for public use, others may be barely working experiments. Enjoy!
dialogic - 💬 Create Dialogs, Visual Novels, RPGs, and manage Characters with Godot to create your Game!
gdsdecomp - Godot reverse engineering tools
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
godot-google-play-billing - Godot Android plugin for the Google Play Billing library
gitbook - The open source frontend for GitBook doc sites