Creativity Unleashed

Narrative design for interactive projects

Available for Microsoft Windows® and macOS®

Overview

Interactive stories are complex by nature. Use articy:draft as a visual database to keep track of all your storylines, characters, and variables in one place. From macro to micro, the nested Flow View lets you create coherent stories from start to end - even when facing a myriad of player choices.

Integration

Integrating content into your game has never been easier. Hundreds of quests, thousands of items, countless lines of dialogue - all in your game with one click. Localization, flexible exports, a powerful API and ready-made integrations for Unity and Unreal let you set up a seamless and efficient content pipeline.

Collaboration

Game development is teamwork and a shared vision is key to success. From small indie teams to large AAA studios - sharing up-to-date content easily is a must. With fully integrated version control and change history articy:draft lets you unlock the true power of creative collaboration.

Narrative Design

Designed for interactivity

As a narrative designer your tools of the trade need to be up to the task. articy:draft is the professional solution for writing and planning narrative content for all types of interactive projects no matter the genre.

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Project Planning

Organize your thoughts

Lots of ideas scribbled on a wild collection of notes. Sounds familiar? Transform your interactive content and narrative design ideas into a structured project, and quickly share relevant information throughout the entire team.

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Game CMS

Data Management made easy

Tired of juggling your spreadsheets? With articy:draft you create and manage data in an easy to use visual environment. Refine content through iteration, and hand it over directly to your game engine of choice.

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Hear from our satisfied clients

“articy:draft is definitely responsible for how wordy the game ended up being. There's something very inspiring about those forest green dialogue trees sprawling out on the screen. ”

Helen Hindpere

Studio ZA/UM
“When we set out to make the most narratively complex political story game out there Articy was *the* tool to help us get the job done. And it did so wonderfully”

Ata Sergey Nowak

Torpor Games
“articy:draft breaks down many of the barriers found in video-game writing and lets me focus on the writing”

Saylor O’Malley

Studio Hip Sword
“As the writer and designer, I can do everything in Articy and just export the content, with all the scripting, without even looking into Unity.”

Marko Tominić

Red Martyr Entertainment
“A tremendous help in creating our highly complex game flow.”

Daniel Marx

Osmotic Studios
“With articy:draft, we were able to speed up our development process and improve collaboration between our narrative and game designers.”

Denis Korablev

Playrix
“We used articy:draft to not only plan and write our story but also for quest states and partly also gameplay related things like loot and items. We found articy a great tool to keep a good overview of the content of a massive game like SpellForce 3. ”

Reinhard Pollice

THQ Nordic