Arrow

Game Narrative Design Tool

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Arrow is the free, open-source and feature-rich tool for game narrative design, text-adventures development, and creation of nonlinear interactive storytelling documents.

Notable Features:

• 100% Visual Development
• Free as in Freedom
• Customizable Node System
• with Built-in Node-types including:
  • Content,
  • Dialog,
  • Conditional,
  • Variable Modifier,
  • User Input,
  • Macro (reusables,)
  • and more.
• Easy Scene Management and Navigation
• One-Click Playable Export
• JSON Export and Import
• VCS Friendly Save Files

Download

Arrow prebuilt executables are available to download from the archive of releases.

Following links are to the latest stable releases:

Linux X11 x86 (32-bit) | x86_64 (64-bit)

Windows 32-bit | 64-bit

At the time MacOS releases are not available.
Mac users may kindly and easily build Arrow from source.

Web App

Arrow is also available as Progressive Web App.

This web-app provides full features as the latest downloadable releases.

It stores project data and configurations in your browser.
Convenience import/export options are available to ease working with file-system of devices as well.

The experience is optimized for desktop (mode/) screens and requires browser to have WebGl and Canvas element support, Web Storage available and Java-Script enabled (in other words: any modern browser by default.)

Runtimes

• Official (Bundled) HTML-JS Runtime

Contribution to Arrow

Contributions are very welcome and appreciated.
Please browse Contribution wiki page, to find where you could help Arrow most.

Thank you in advance.

Guides

Docs for Arrow are available in the project's wiki including:

Quick Start Guide

Build from Source

Licenses

Copyright (c) 2021-2022 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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