Drafft AlternativesGame Development Tools and other similar apps like Drafft

Drafft is described as 'Multi-platform, offline-first editor for interactive narrative systems and game design data. Design and structure dialogue trees, scripts, variables, quests, items, game design documents, and more' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Drafft for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Drafft alternative is Twine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Drafft are Ren'Py, StoryFlow Editor, Inky by Inkle and Ink by Inkle.

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  1. Twine icon
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    Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.

    56 Twine alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  2. Ren'Py icon
     76 likes

    a visual novel engine that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell interactive stories that run on computers, mobile devices, and the web.

    51 Ren'Py alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. StoryFlow Editor is a visual node-based tool for designing branching narratives and dialogue systems. If you're building a narrative-heavy game and tired of juggling spreadsheets, docs and text files, this is built for you.

    4 StoryFlow Editor alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Steam
    • itch.io
     
  4. Inky by Inkle icon
     6 likes

    editor that uses the Ink narrative scripting language and allows you to play and test your interactive (game) narrative stories on the fly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Ink by Inkle icon
     9 likes

    ink is a scripting language built around the idea of marking up pure-text with flow in order to produce interactive scripts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Tuesday JS icon
     11 likes

    Tuesday is a free open source engine for creating visual novels, interactive stories and text-based adventure games. Written in JavaScript without using any third party libraries. There is support for the Apache Cordova framework for building native mobile and desktop...

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Arcweave icon
     10 likes

    Arcweave is a scalable, secure, cross-device and enterprise-ready team collaboration solution designed for distributed organizations. Our modular flowchart system helps designers, developers, artists and product managers build amazing experiences.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. ChoiceScript icon
     9 likes

    ChoiceScript is a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice games (MCGs) like Choice of the Dragon. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. Squiffy icon
     2 likes

    Squiffy is a tool for creating multiple choice interactive fiction. It's written entirely in JavaScript - the compiler uses Node.js and the games it generates run in a web browser so it can run on any system with a modern browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Squeaker icon
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    Squeaker is a non-linear multi-language dialogue tree editor. Squeaker makes it easy to focus on composing and editing a game's script while keeping it all organized.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. articy:draft icon
     10 likes

    The first professional tool for story and game design

    Create, organize and communicate your game vision. Compose every aspect of your game design in just one highly visual and versatile solution.

    Develop interactive stories, deep and meaningful characters and item bibles coveri.

    18 articy:draft alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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