About This Software Flex license - What's this?Full-featured and easy on the purse!This new license gives you all the features of the most recent articy:draft version, incl. the commercial use right. It's flexible, because you only pay a low monthly fee and can cancel your subscription each month. If you pay on a yearly basis, you get an even lower rate.About articy:draftarticy:draft is a visual environment for the creation and organization of game and story content - such as non-linear storylines, branching dialogues, level layouts or character and item databases. All content can be exported into various formats - including JSON, XML and Microsoft Office. With version 3 and higher. you can also integrate your content easily into Unity with the comprehensive articy:draft to Unity plugin.FeaturesPlan non-linear storiesWrite branching conversationsControl game logic with variables and conditionsSimulate your story content to find problems early onManage large amounts of game objects (characters, items, ...) Sketch locations and communicate level ideasDocument your game in detailExport to WordExport & Import to Excel for localizationExport to JSON or XML to integrate your content Integrate your content in Unity easilyCommercial Usageand more…Story, Mission & Quest Designarticy:draft makes the creation of interactive, branching content easy. It’s perfect for your narrative structure design. Each node in your story or mission flowchart can contain an inner flowchart. For example, you can start with a top-level chapter-like structure and break it down into further and further until reaching single lines of dialogue. This nested approach ensures clean and organized flowcharts.Finally, use the simulation mode to test your flow logic before you export it. By using variables, conditions and instructions you can control the flow your game. For instance, if you want a line of dialogue only to show up when certain conditions are fulfilled.Unity IntegrationBoost your iteration process. Our comprehensive Unity plugin gets your content ready to use to Unity with just a few clicks.Game Object Databasearticy:draft includes a powerful game object database with a flexible template system. Build everything, from characters, items, spells to weapons and skills. Create your objects as templates and use them wherever you need them.Use And Create PluginsAutomate tasks and customize workflows by using custom plugins. The Macro Devkit enables you to develop your own plugins fast and easily.Location PlanningWith its build-in location editor, a vector-based 2D drawing tool, you can easily plan your game world and single levels. This editor is an iteration-friendly sketching tool for maps and scenarios. You can place story events, spawn points and trigger zones on the map for planning purposes. For some game genres, the location editor can even produce the actual game output. For example 2D layer-based backgrounds for point’n’click adventures or hidden object games. 7aa9394dea Title: articy:draft 3 - Flex LicenseGenre: Design & Illustration, Education, UtilitiesDeveloper:ByteRockers' GamesPublisher:articy SoftwareRelease Date: 5 Oct, 2015 Articy:draft 3 - Flex License Activation Code [Xforce Keygen] As a hobbist writer & avid P&P RPG player, this tool has exceeded my expectations. The countless elements, timing, relatoins, & everything else my head tries to maintain can now be put down in an elegant and manageable format. I've barely scratched the surface & it Articy:Draft2 is opening doors & resolving story issues stopped by "writer's block". Creativity & writing just became exponentially more enjoyable.. Foreword: I am writing this review of 2 SE for those PAST my level, who know coding and designing games. --For those new to game development--, I wanted to give this a THUMBS DOWN , but since theres no middle rating and I want to be fair to the developers I'll have to include this note here.Pros:+ quick interface+ great for getting an idea how to organize your project if youre mainly a coder+ good for writers+ good for artists+ good for project managementCons:- subscription model is WAY too pricy for those starting out- wish it had better tutorials- the price...Summary:This is a great program for those who need help plotting a story, organizing entities, and in general for those who know how to program and would like a design document 'CMS of sorts'. Love how fast the interface responds, something crucial in any design program. I wouldn't recommend it for those starting out as it's basically a fancy file organizer. But those already with an established project could benefit greatly. There is a one time purchase, which seemed to be the original purchase method, but it takes some fumbling with their website to find, something like $60 for one time payment. Eitherway this is a program I expect to be coming back to, as they just released V3.My suggestion:make one license a $20 ~ $25 purchaseeach additional user (on a project) would be a commercial license subscription $5~$6put up a simple project lesson example on youtube (a free one would be great exposure). For indie\/small teams it's good enough if you are lone writer. Multi\/User support is a bit pricy.It supports importing text from Articy Draft, it can export to number of formats including cvs file that can be imported into Unity's Dialogue System plugin. Makes a great combo for that.There is also native Unity Support option. You can write dialogue trees, test them in simulation. You can add variables and simple logic, easy to use stuff.You can create entities, which is generic term for any kind of stuff that might need data tied into it. You can assign custom fields and variables to entities and thus create from them NPC, Items, Spell, Powers etc. There is simple document writing tool, that lets you write and format dialogues similar to profesional script tools like Articy Draft, Celtx etc. If you like to get started on story and dialogues in more traditional format this is good thing to have. You can then transform this into regular dialogue node with simple drag and drop. But working on actual dialogue tree this way is messy. You can create locations and plan level design as well, but I didn't find this workflow particularly productive. Might work for others or different kind of projects. Overall this software still has the ways to go to become "ultimate game developer tool" but theres been good progress so far. There is also a free 14 day full feature demo on developers website for testing.. New multi-user client licensing cost is 5x the single user cost per person. Aproximately $90US a month for 2 seats. Completely alienating small groups and\/or studios.Honestly the software isn't all that great either. It's a glorified file share that lets you type word documents in an organized tree structure and reference objects. The dialogue choice system isn't ready for dialogue heavy titles, only small scenes. They sell a seperate product ( of course ) that allows API access to that system for use in your applications directly.For the price they're asking you can buy multiple copies of better stand alone tools that do the same thing, and host your files on SVN. Even something like Perforce: Helix Cloud, is less expensive and better featured.. Not usable for my workflow in a very heavy dialogue game. The export for character voice-over scripts was so bad it was a deal breaker....this aspect is genuinely bad in my opnion. Using this will only create more work for me on a game that is already being written\/developed. This software is probably great for a lot of people and it's pretty easy to use. For me, a spreadsheet is 100x better. I almost paid hundreds for the full version and I'm really glad I tried this flex license first.. As a first-time indie developer, I have to say that articy is very useful in keeping all my ideas well-formatted. Since I am a one person team, there are many aspects of my game that I want down as concepts that I can work on as I get to them, and articy does not disapoint with allowing me to lay these out in an easy to find manner. I would also say for those who have a team it is quite useful as they allow hosting (and you can host through them) so you'd be able to have an updated game plan document for all team members at any time. Definitely worth the flex license, you can even just get a month to try it, and then upgrade to a full year or just buy the software should you feel like it. There is also a very comprehensive tutorial on every section of the program, (although I turned it off as I found it distracting) which is certainly useful for those new to a pre-development enviroment. Overall I'd give it a 8\/10-9\/10, just as the UI can be a bit odd to get used to, but there's nothing else to complain about from my end.. If you are looking to manage a media project such as writing a novel, a comic book, running a PnP role playing game, creating or modding a video game or even writing a script, this is perhaps one of the best values you'll find for project (and asset) management.I've been using this program for three weeks to organize materials I'd been working with using a file system for my project management needs and am completely blown away with that power contained in this application.It allows you as a designer or creative person to work at the level of your most important assets. Your characters, locations, dialogue, media assets (images etc). Very helpful if you're putting together a design document from which to coordinate your project.Document your character backgrounds for detailed a synopsis of each one. Design and layout simple maps right in the program or import your own images to work from. Dialogue, quest and plot trees can be written within the program schematically.It supports exporting in a number of formats (Word, Excel, JSON, XLSL) which makes it great for keeping a master file of your project.For its subscription price this is a highly valuable tool for any project and certainly a tool I'd recommend having from the start of any project as it is just as important for fleshing out the creative aspects of your project as it is the professional aspects (such as asset development and project roadmap).I'm not even using it to its full potential yet so consider this review an understatement.. Not usable for my workflow in a very heavy dialogue game. The export for character voice-over scripts was so bad it was a deal breaker....this aspect is genuinely bad in my opnion. Using this will only create more work for me on a game that is already being written\/developed. This software is probably great for a lot of people and it's pretty easy to use. For me, a spreadsheet is 100x better. I almost paid hundreds for the full version and I'm really glad I tried this flex license first.
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