Arrow
A free, open-source visual tool for designing game narratives, text adventures, and interactive nonlinear storytelling documents.
What is Arrow?
Arrow is a free, open-source visual tool for designing game narratives, text adventures, and interactive nonlinear storytelling documents. It provides a node-based interface where creators can build branching narratives with logic, variables, characters, and scenes, then export them as playable HTML experiences.
Game writers, narrative designers, interactive fiction authors, and developers creating text-based games or complex branching narratives who need visual tools for story structure.
Developers choose Arrow because it offers professional narrative design features completely free and open-source, with visual development that eliminates coding barriers while maintaining VCS-friendly project files and one-click playable exports.
Overview
Game Narrative Design Tool
Use Cases
Best For
- Designing branching narratives for video games
- Creating interactive fiction and text adventures
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