articy:draft 3

This is one of the best tools I've ever used. It's incredibly robust and super useful for any kind of writing, but *especially* writing for game development. When you add in the fact that you can use the plugin to directly translate things like dialogue trees from your draft files into your game engine (which I have done), it's a no-brainer. It can be a little pricey, but if you're interested in games writing and this pops on sale, absolutely pick this up. Some notes on the plugin: I used it for Unity a while ago (I know, ew), and at the time while the documentation was very robust, there wasn't much community around it, so if you run into issues the documentation doesn't cover you're kind of on your own to figure it out. On the bright side, the plugin is relatively simple depending on what you want to do with it, so figuring those problems out is not too terrible. I'm not sure if the community has grown in recent years, so that issue might have been alleviated by now.

This is a good program. However, be prepared to extend it yourself if you want good documents generated from it as the current export feature has several bugs. The company making Articy is currently focused on the new version which has a subscription model and they are not solving bugs in this version anymore. I have contacted several times with them with bugs but they are not releasing patches anymore. That's the reason I stopped using it and I cannot recommend it anymore.

Let me get out of the way i'm no game maker but I got the program because maybe one day I want to be and I have ideas that I want to put down and sort out. Even barring all technical knowledge of game development, there are some pretty decent tools a brainless person like me can use to get what I want done. There are some quality of life difficulties I can't imagine why needs to be there like, having unnecessary extra steps to editing every single individual templates or not allowing you to manually "save as" to a specified location, or make a new file save. It saves automatically and overwrites that single save every time, every 5 minutes. In fact that is such a poor practice that if a problem happens like say, trying to save some new template edits freezes the program and makes it unresponsive, you can't go back to an older file that actually works and now instead every time you try to load your project and edit a detail, the whole program freezes. Edit: Despite the flaws, i'm changing my review from thumbs down to thumbs up because customer support responded. I was kind of sceptical if there would be any for a product more than a few years old by now, so glad that it's there.

super useful tool for planning, writing plots and characters, and fleshing out ideas.

Yeah, one bug; I'm only able to open project files directly from my local drive (In this case, C:) Aside from that, it's a phenomenal piece of software for outlining not just games, but also stories if you're a writer.

Needs a lot of work with formatting but they have dropped it for their new articy draft X with a subscription... Unity and unreal importer are out of date as well now on 3 version. I just use use it for renpy or godot so I have custom exporter anyways. Still I love it but for most people the free version on their site should do the trick if you are looking for basic dialogue flow. I would still pick it up on a sale.

It's a good program for organizing plot flow, dialog, and many 2D assets. I have yet to use the integration with Unity, but I have good reason to believe that articy:draft will continue to be useful in my creation process.