Non-Linear Story Design & Dialogs

Compose a network of plot and dialog fragments for story based, open world or mission-based games. Manage your ideas on a smart, zoomable canvas.

Export / Tool-chain integration

Export individual objects or the entire project as XML for use in your internal tool chain. Create Office documents out of articy:draft data.

See features page for details.

Character & Object Design

Write credible characters with depth. Manage their unique motivations, skills and relations to other characters. Design your own items and objects.

Multi-User Collaboration

Log on to articy:draft and work together with all other designers, writers and artists in your team. Easily track other people's work and comment on it.

Worlds, Locations and Sets

Express your location design in an integrated and comprehensive world drawing tool. Sketch your floor plans or use your concept art as backdrops.

Asset pool / Versioning

Browse your media assets and attach them to your story, locations and characters. Manage revisions through a Perforce or Subversion interface.

Key questions

What is articy:draft?

articy:draft is the first professional tool for story and game design that's tailored to the specific demands of non-linear storytelling. It is the breakthrough tool for story-driven game projects, drastically increasing productivity and joy of use throughout the entire production. With its graphical flow visualization, articy:draft lets you compose interactive stories with great freedom of action for its players and at the same time keep track over dramaturgy and player experience.

How can articy:draft help me write a game?

Game writing is a very challenging creative process. Game writers have to switch back and forth between the general overview and the in-depth level of the fragment they’re writing in order to stay consistent with their ideas. Our goal with articy:draft is to let writers intuitively design games and stories on a visual basis and to make the transition between these “mind planes” as smooth as possible.

Can I work with others?

Yes. You can work online with other designers, writers and artists and benefit largely from the integrated asset management and workflow functionalities. With its integrated multi-user features, articy:draft serves as a comfortable foundation for creative collaboration, increasing productivity, fun and – most of all – storytelling quality. And thanks to our client-server-approach, our software allows all designers in a team to work closely together and track the changes of other people. Now game writers can work on their projects from all around the world, even at Starbucks.

What can I do with my articy:draft data?

articy:draft data can easily be integrated into your tool-chain. All created data can be exported as XML for later use in the proprietary game technology. In the current version the XML scheme is predefined to export the entire project as XML. In the future, we’re not only planning the export and import of specific XML sequences like single items or dialogues but also additional export types like PDF and XLS files.

For more questions about articy:draft please visit our F.A.Q. page.

articy:draft Versions

articy:draft single-user application

The single-user version is a full-featured articy:draft version for users working locally on their machines. It is predestined for freelancers. For online collaboration with multiple users, please choose the multi-user version.

articy:draft multi-user client

The multi-user version of articy:draft is designed for collaborative environments with multiple clients working online together at the same time. It is a full-featured articy:draft client with the ability to connect to the articy:server. It also supports repository systems like Subversion and Perforce.

 

articy:draft multi-user viewer

The articy:draft multi-user viewer licenses allow your team members to browse and explore your projects and participate in the multi-user environment, but are strictly limited to read-only access to selected projects. 

articy:server

One articy:server is required in multi-user collaboration environments for the articy:draft clients to connect to. To keep your data save, the server is hosted by yourself. The articy:server license comes in three editions:

  • articy:server "Standard" for up to 10 multi-user clients
  • articy:server "Enterprise" for up to 25 multi-user clients
  • articy:server "Ultimate" for more than 25 multi-user clients