Arcweave is a web-based #narrative game design tool for 🎮 #interactive experiences used by over 40K people across the globe. 🌐
Powerful, versatile, and collaborative, with seamless integration <> Unreal Engine, Unity, and Godot. #gamedev#seriousgames#gamedesign
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Localizing interactive stories is brutal.
Arcweave makes localization NATIVE to the narrative design workflow, keeping everyone happy:
✅ Translators work in context
✅ Project managers track translation status
✅ Developers fetch localized JSON
blog.arcweave.com/interactiv…
ALT On the left of the image, the title Localization in bold light-purple letters over white background. On the right, a vector illustration of four people using various devices, mobile & desktop, a screen, a game controller, and dialogue balloons in various languages.
Not everything needs to go global... Here come the Board Variables!
Scoped and namespaced per board, they declutter your variables list, in 🗺️ design and in 🎮 playtesting.
Discover Arcweave's board variables: docs.arcweave.com/project-it…#gamedev#seriousgames#indiedev
ALT Animated GIF of Arcweave's project environment, demonstrating how you can create a new board variable by right-clicking a board in the sidebar. Then, it demonstrates how the variable is called in an element in the form of board-name-dot-variable-name. Finally, it shows the global and board variables in the Play Mode's debugger.
🎮 FGF26 Game Jam: Plan B 🎉The results are in!
11 games submitted & reviewed! They all showcase creativity, resilience, and collaboration at its finest!
🧡 Powered by Arcweave 🧡 See and play the winning games:
itch.io/jam/fgf26gamejam/res…
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🎓 Teaching game writing/design? 🎮 Arcweave eases your students into the craft: they apply theory as they learn it, playtest their ideas immediately, and feel the principles at work. All in one intuitive, visual, and collaborative environment.
Arcweave grows with your games studio:
🗺️ Visual story editor
🧩 Components & Assets library
👥 Real-time collaboration
🎮 Built-in playtesting
🔁 Version control
🌍 Localization
🚀 Engine-ready exports
What game are you making?
#gamedev#gamewriting#gamedesign
ALT A collage of images from various games written in Arcweave. The title says "Fun. Games. Arcweave." The Arcweave logo is at the bottom right.
How we wish we were at SF for this great event by @IGDAWritingSIG! Lots of our new friends will be there; great writers we had the pleasure to meet and admire their work during the Game Writing SIG Arcjam 2025. And we hope we do more creative stuff together soon!
Announcing the 2026 GDC Game Writing SIG Write Club Party! Tuesday, March 10 from 7:30 - 11:00 pm at Johnny Foley's Irish Pub Sign up at this link: buff.ly/LrHec5H
Arcweave's latest update lets you import projects as JSON, for even more integration options.
✅ Use for custom JSON export / import workflows
✅ Bring in JSON from other platforms and keep moving
Build what you want, how you want it, and let Arcweave adapt to you.
ALT A graphic showing a JSON icon (left) and a white arrow pointing at the Arcweave logo (right). The background is black, with part of Arcweave JSON code emerging. A title at the top says "More flexibility. More options." A title at the bottom says "Import your project as JSON."
Arcweave's History lets you experiment without fear of losing your work. Enjoy safe, non-destructive version control in your collaborations.
ALT Graphic of the Arcweave logo on grey background. The Arcweave logo is on the left side and the history icon (an anti-clockwise arrow with clock hands) on the right. A title below says Arcweave writes History. A smaller font title above says non-destructive version control.