Any software for video game non-linear story design?
Is there any software for making non-linear story or dialogues?
I tried MS Word/Google Docs but that's not good for dialogues.
In one complicated dialogue I wrote in Google Drawings, it looks like this
(Ignore those ticks; I think it's not final version - I see some problems here)
As you can see, all ways lead to the bottom node (except red arrows - which lead to game over)
It was pretty hard to make it, especially those long arrows - even now when I opened it, Chrome barely could do it - it was lagging as hell
What software are you using? Or maybe there's a software dedicated to make non-linear story?
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articy:draft from Nevigo
The software is specifically designed for writing in a software development environment. It has things like asset management so that you can manage all your characters with everything important you want to keep in mind about them in one place, the ability to write branching dialogue, an export to Word and Excel, ...
It even has an integration into Unity.
There is a 14 day trial version.
Biggest problem: the price of ~85$ for a lifetime one-user license
It's more designed for bigger projects with multiple people.
Flowchart software like yEd (the idea is from Memor-X in an answer to my more general question about Are there tools that can aid an author in writing a branching storyline?)
With flowchart software like yEd you can easily manage branches and re-arrange it however you see fit at a later point in your development. The downside is that it's not really made for writing lots of text, but you could make subgraphs to assist you.
yEd is free and can be downloaded here. There is even an online version if you don't want to download anything.
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A free open-source tool for telling non-linear / interactive storylines is
Twine
Another non-free alternative to articy:draft is
Chat Mapper
From the forum posts and reviews I read, most that tried to find a free alternative to articy:draft, ended up paying for that software, because apparently it is superior in functionality to the free alternatives. But you'll have to try different software and the free demos yourself, to find what works best for you.
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