Arrow

The Game Narrative Design Tool

Download | Integration | Web App | Guides

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

Notable Features:

• Free as in Freedom
• 100% Visual Development
• Advanced Node System
• VCS-Friendly Save Files
• Support for Distributed Workflows
• One-Click Playable Export (HTML)
• CSV (I18n) Export
• Unicode (with RTL, CJK and CTL) Support
• Continuum Safety

Arrow supports a rich palette of features, from scenes and macros, to variables and characters. It also comes with built-in common node types, providing logic, interactive navigation, random data generation, state management, and more.

Check out Guides for detailed information.

Download

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

Following links are to the fairly stable most recent versions:

• Linux (X11) x86_64 (64-bit)
• Windows 64-bit

For other platforms and architectures, or to take advantage of the latest features in the main branch consider building or running Arrow from source.

Web App

Arrow is also available as a Progressive Web App.

The app tries to provide the core features on a par with the most recent downloadable releases.
The most critical difference is that it stores project data and configurations in your browser.
Additional import & export conveniences are available to ease working with file-system of your device.

Note!
Due to the nature of browsers, certain features may be limited or not available in web app versions.
We highly recommend prioritizing use of Arrow for desktop (OS platforms) whenever possible.
Currently known limited features on browsers include: loading fonts from the user's system (affecting Unicode support), window management conveniences and incremental exports.

PWA version requires your browser to have WebGl and Canvas element support, available Web-Storage, and Java-Script enabled (which any modern browser does by default).

The experience is optimized for medium-large screens.

Runtime & Integration

• Bow

  With a complete Arrow runtime in its core, and much more, Bow is our narrative software development kit developed as a minimal/demo open game.

• Official HTML-JS Runtime

  Bundled with Arrow, this runtime is used in playable exports.

Guides

Docs for Arrow are available in the repository's Wiki, including a Quick Start Guide as well as, detailed instructions, documentation of the built-in nodes, and more.

Licenses

Copyright (c) 2021-present 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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