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Game Writing & Narrative Design Guides

Practical guides for writing and designing game narrative. Start with environmental storytelling to build places your players can read, write your conversations with the branching dialogue guide, and keep it all together with a narrative design document.

Worldbuilding

Build places, history and lore your whole team can use.

14 min read

Environmental Storytelling in Games

Tell a place's story through what players see, with techniques, game examples and a four-layer framework.

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9 min read

Narrative Design Document Template

What goes in a narrative design document and lore bible, with an outline you can copy.

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Branching dialogue

Write, structure and test interactive conversations.

11 min read

How to Write Branching Dialogue for Games

Structures, techniques and testing for branching conversations, from first draft to engine.

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10 min read

Planning Branching Dialogue with the Route Planner

Group dialogues into scenes and chapters and let route checks find dead ends before playtesting.

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8 min read

Notes and Meta Data on the Canvas with Meta Areas

Set the shot, background or music of many nodes at once by drawing an area around them.

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8 min read

Turn a Dialogue into a Storyboard

Mark Meta Areas as scenes and shots, read the dialogue as numbered cards, and jump from a shot to its lines.

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Compare tools

Honest comparisons of narrative design tools for game studios.

The Best Narrative Design Tools in 2026

articy:draft, Arcweave, Yarn Spinner, ink, Twine, LoreHub and more, compared.

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An articy:draft Alternative

LoreHub and articy:draft X on collaboration, localisation, engine export and pricing.

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Yarn Spinner vs LoreHub

A script language with engine runtimes, or a visual browser editor.

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A Twine Alternative for Game Teams

When a Twine prototype has to become game dialogue for a team.

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