Top 15 articy:draft Alternative and Similar Games | Nov 2024

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 covering the full game content. Draft specific game locations and manage their place in the game world. Create your own custom templates for classes of items, objects, missions, characters, combat units, levels and more.

1. Undum

Undum Undum is a game framework for building a sophisticated form of hypertext interactive fiction.Undum is designed for HTML5 and CSS3 browsers. It has been tested on Firefox 3.6, Chrome 5, and Safari 5. Older browsers may work okay too, but some of the animation won't work, the styles may render......

2. gist-txt

gist-txt gist-txt - A minimal text adventure engine......

3. Chronicler

Chronicler Chronicler is an open source desktop application which allows users to create CYOA/MCG (choose your own adventure/multiple choice games) interactive fiction using a GUI not dissimilar to Twine (i.e. in the style of a flow chart). Chronicler creates .txt file outputs written in ChoiceScript.......

4. Novashell

Novashell Novashell is a high-level 2D game maker that tries to handle all the hard work behind the scenes allowing you to whip up sweet games using path finding, dialog, persistent dynamically sized maps with construction/deconstruction, save anywhere, and especially features that adventure and RPG type games would use. It's also......

5. Snap

Snap Snap (formerly BYOB) is a visual, drag-and-drop programming language. It is an extended reimplementation of Scratch (a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab) that allows you to Build Your Own Blocks. It also features first class lists, first class procedures, and continuations. These......

6. Unreal Development Kit

Unreal Development Kit "UDK is Unreal Engine 3 – the complete professional development framework. All the tools you need to create great games, advanced visualizations and detailed 3D simulations. The best tools in the industry are in your hands." -Site......

7. Geosophic

Geosophic Geosophic offers location based leaderboards for free for mobile game developers.Other interesting extra features are location based analytics as well as game cross promotion through a 'trending games recommendation engine'.Think of any of the gaming platforms (i.e. OpenFeint or GameCenter) but with a geolocation twist.......

8. Scoreoid

Scoreoid Scoreoid, developed by game developers for game developers, is a non-restrictive, reliable and easy to use backend as a service.......

9. Spine

Spine Spine is 2D animation software designed specifically for software and game development. Animators, artists and programmers unite to bring your games alive.......

10. Spriter

Spriter Spriter : an intuitive 2D animation tool for video game makers. Spriter enables the “modular” method of animating where, instead of each frame being a single complete image, it is constructed from many small, re- useable images (such as body parts). Each of these images that are used to construct......

11. Cosmigo Pro Motion

Cosmigo Pro Motion Pro Motion is a drawing and animation software for Windows designed similar to the famous Amiga Deluxe Paint (DPaint).It is ideal for artists working on detailed and pixel precise graphics as required for mobile systems like cell phones, smart phones, Pocket PCs, handheld video game consoles like Gameboy / Advance......

12. Dundjinni

Dundjinni Dundjinni is a full-featured fantasy map creation program. It allows users to create walls and floors, place objects, insert text, and more. It boasts an intuitive interface and an impressive selection of objects and textures (over 190 images). It also allows you to author d20 adventures in a simple yet......

13. Panda3D

Panda3D Panda3D is a game engine, a framework for 3D rendering and game development for Python and C++ programs. Panda3D is Open Source and free for any purpose, including commercial ventures, thanks to its liberal license. Go ahead and grab it here. To learn more about Panda3D's capabilities, visit the gallery......

14. Invader Maker

Invader Maker Invader Maker turns out to be something like Mario Bros meets Space Invaders. It's a classic 2d - single screen - platform game creator. The combinations you can make with Invader Maker are countless. Even with no scripting and no real AI other than having things get in your way......

15. TalkerMaker Deluxe

TalkerMaker Deluxe A fairly bare-bones FOSS alternative to applications like ChatMapper and articy:draft to allow for people who don't necessarily have the money to license those programs to still leverage branching dialogue in a clean and easy way.......