Features

Create a coherent game design – in just one tool.

Finally you have all your game design data in one central tool.

• Accessible to all your team members
• Work on current data all the time
• Integrate all reference & documentation material

Write living design documents collaboratively.

Turn articy:draft 2 into your studio’s up-to-date design documentation hub.

• Write design documents within articy:draft 2 – no need to leave the tool
• Link documents to game content using references
• Embed images, they’ll be updated automatically when source changes

Stay on top of non-linear stories and dialogues.

Use your team’s potential with the specialised views of articy:draft 2.

• Use nested objects to clearly structure the story
• Stay focused by switching from global overview to story details
• Play through the flow in an interactive presentation mode

Design characters, items, and objects.

Rely on articy:draft 2 to design all the objects in your game world efficiently, regardless of whether these objects are cars, swords or characters.

• Stay flexible by creating object templates
• Rely on consistent data even in multi-user environments
• Eliminate copy & paste errors by using articy:draft 2 data in your game

Sketch location ideas quickly.

Sketching the locations of your game world gives a sense of understanding of the space, scope and mood of your vision.

• Drag & drop objects, dialogues and characters into the locations
• Quickly jump to the referenced objects
• Use custom backgrounds to visualize your concepts

Integrate articy:draft 2 into your pipeline

articy:draft 2 shows its muscles when it comes to integration into your workflow.

• Export your data to XML for parsing or to .xlsx or .docx to share
• Connect to your toolchain with the articy:draft API (available separately)
• Deliver your content at runtime with the upcoming articy:access

And much more

Version comparison

 

• Features:
• NEW! Export to articy:access
• NEW! Tutorial mode
• NEW! Advanced text editing
• ► Text-links (internal & external)
• ► Formatting
• ► Spell-checking in 25 languages
• NEW! Library
• ► Basic feature set
• NEW! Documents
• ► Basic feature set
• ► Include images
• ► Convert into Flow objects
• ► Automated numbering
• Journeys
• ► Record a Journey through the Flow
• ► Interactive Journey player
• Flow editor
• ► Basic feature set
• ► NEW! LOD-ing of nodes
• ► NEW! Show template data on nodes
• ► Object and reference material attachments
• ► Nested flowcharts
• Entity editor (Characters, items, ...)
• ► Basic feature set
• ► Object and reference material attachments
• Location editor
• ► Vector shapes for sketches
• ► Background images
• ► Zones, paths, spots
• ► Links to objects
• Custom templates
• ► Basic feature set
• Multi-user
• NEW! articy:draft API compatibility
• ► Team collaboration
• ► Integrated check in / out
• ► Versioning (Perforce / SVN integration)
• ► NEW! Internal SVN server
• ► Version history with comments
• ► Live notifications
• ► User rights: Admin / standard / viewer
• ► Centralized license management

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