The Game Narrative Design Tool
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Arrow is the free, open-source and feature-rich tool for game narrative design, text-adventure development, and creation of interactive nonlinear storytelling documents.
Notable Features:
- Free as in Freedom
- 100% Visual Development
- Advanced Node System
- VCS-Friendly Save Files
- Support for Distributed Workflows
- One-Click Playable Export (HTML)
- CSV (I18n) Export
- RTL, CJK and CTL support
- Continuum Safety
Arrow supports a rich palette of features, from scenes and macros, to variables and characters. It also comes with built-in common node types, providing logic, interactive navigation, random data generation, state management, and more.
Check out Guides for detailed information.
Arrow prebuilt executables are available to download from the archive of releases.
Following links are to the fairly stable most recent versions:
- Linux (X11) x86_64 (64-bit)
- Windows 64-bit
For other platforms and architectures, or to take advantage of the latest features in the main branch consider building or running Arrow from source.
Arrow is also available as a Progressive Web App.
The app provides all the features as the most recent downloadable releases.
The main difference is that it stores project data and configurations in your browser.
Additionally import/export conveniences are available to ease working with file-system of your device as well.
The experience is optimized for desktop (mode/) screens.
PWA version requires your browser to have
WebGlandCanvaselement support, availableWeb-Storage, andJava-Scriptenabled (which any modern browser does by default).
- Official HTML-JS Runtime
Bundled with Arrow, this runtime is used in playable exports.
Docs for Arrow are available in the repository's Wiki, including a Quick Start Guide as well as, detailed instructions, documentation of the built-in nodes, and more.
Copyright (c) 2021-present Mor. H. Golkar and contributors
Unless otherwise specified, Arrow and files in this repository are
available under MIT license.
See license & copyright files for more information.
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