Question 1

What are the system requirements for using NarrativeFlow?

Accepted Answer

NarrativeFlow runs in your browser and works on all major operating systems—Windows, Linux, macOS, and Chromebooks—using any modern browser like Firefox, Brave, Chrome, or Safari. There are some recommended best practices for performance, but you can go beyond that if you want. NarrativeFlow will never restrict how many Nodes you can have in an Experience.

Question 2

Can I use NarrativeFlow for commercial projects or games?

Accepted Answer

Yes — 100%. NarrativeFlow is built for professional narrative designers and hobbyists alike, whether you're working solo, in a small indie team, or as part of a larger studio. You're absolutely welcome to use it for both free and paid/commercial projects. There are no royalties or revenue cuts — ever. What you create with NarrativeFlow is yours.

Question 3

How can NarrativeFlow save me time designing video game narrative?

Accepted Answer

Most indie developers currently design their narrative as individual lines of code, or worse, in a spreadsheet or as CSVs. This is slow, error prone, and extremely inconvenient. NarrativeFlow allows you to design your narrative and its logic visually, making it much faster and more intuitive.

Question 4

How can this improve my video game's narrative?

Accepted Answer

NarrativeFlow doesn't restrict you in any way. You can create as many branches as you want. You can define, track, and test as many variables as you want. You can define any custom text styling you need. Thousands of Data Table items, thousands of Nodes, etc. So you know that deep RPG branching narrative idea your friend has that's so complex your head spins? Yeah, it probably is possible with NarrativeFlow.

Question 5

How can it make narrative design easier and more powerful?

Accepted Answer

Writing narrative as code is frustrating and is a terrible environment for your creativity. Not to mention, intertwined webs of dialogue are pretty much impossible to follow or debug when designed as code, which is why NarrativeFlow allows you to design your narrative and its logic visually. In addition, rather than being limited to only three options per player choice because that's the restriction of the code, you can have as many as you want.

Question 6

Is it easy to integrate with my game engine / programming language?

Accepted Answer

If you or a team member are even just mildly comfortable with code, yes! It's as simple as dropping a single code script into your game's source code and interfacing with just 6 functions. Yes, it really is that simple. No DLLs, no restrictive code license, and you're encouraged to modify the script however you need.