Hello and welcome to the articy:draft X Basics tutorial series. This lesson covers registration, download, and installation for articy:draft X Free, articy:draft X, and the demo project package.
Get articy:draft X FREE
Navigate to articy.com and click the orange “Get Free version” button.
This leads to the registration page. On the left side of the page you will find detailed information and a dedicated FAQ section for the Free version. On the right side is the registration form. Just enter name and email, check the required boxes, and click the button to confirm. No payment info required!
After confirming your registration you will receive a welcome email containing your license key and the download link for the software usually within a couple of minutes.
Download the installer executable and run it. The installation itself is pretty straight forward. Note, that articy:draft X uses .NET 8, which will be installed automatically if it is missing from your system.
When prompted, paste in the license key you received in your welcome email. Select an install folder and wait for a bit until the installation is complete. You’ll see a shortcut icon on your desktop now to easily start the free version of articy:draft X.
articy:draft X full version
If you’ve already purchased a full version of articy:draft X, you can download the client from articy.com. Select Support (1) from the main navigation, then Downloads (2). Here you always get the most current version of the application.
For this general installer, you need to specify which version you would like to install, prior to entering the license key. You can use this installer as well for the Free version, as you can see here.
Demo projects
When you open articy for the first time you will be greeted by the – so far empty – welcome screen. Let’s install the articy demo projects! Click “Demo projects” and confirm.
After a short while the projects will appear in the project selection. They are a great way to see how articy:draft can be used in different ways for different projects.
For this series we are mainly going to use the Dracula project.
If you have familiarized yourself with articy a bit and work with Unreal or Unity, Maniac Manfred is worth a closer look. It is a point & click adventure and in combination with the corresponding engine projects, which you of course also can download for free, it is a slice of a small, playable game project.
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articy:draft X downloads
articy:draft X Demo projects download