So I went ahead and picked up Articy on Steam and feel that it's a fantastic design tool.
However I'm now trying to figure out how to get data from Articy into my game engine more efficiently. Sadly my game engine has no support for parsing XML's. I use Game Maker: Studio (also on Steam).
However I recently learned that it DOES have native support for loading JSON data into strings for future reference. This would seem to be a perfect fit, if only Articy could export to JSON.
In my research for JSON support I see a similar program Chat Mapper supports this export (as well as XML like Articy). However Chat Mapper looks much less polished and robust than Articy, which I already own anyway.
So I was hoping there had been some discussion on including JSON export in Articy? Would something like that get added to all versions or would it only go to Articy 2 (or 3)? If there are no such plans, does anyone have any suggestions on XML to JSON conversion? I've seen a few web tools but all seemed finicky and I hardly want phantom conversion errors on databases large enough that I felt the need to use Articy to build.
Thoughts?