Twine
Story & game design
Write interactive, branching stories without code.
- Free
- Open source
- Good for beginners
Yarn Spinner
Story & game design
A friendly dialogue system for Unity and Godot.
- Free
- Open source
- Good for beginners
ink
Story & game design
A scripting language for branching dialogue, from inkle.
- Free
- Open source
- Good for beginners
Bitsy
Game engines
Make tiny pixel-art exploration and story games in your browser.
- Free
- Open source
- Good for beginners
Game Maker's Toolkit
Learning
Video essays about why great game design works.
- Free resource
- Good for beginners
Notion
Planning & teamwork
Docs, wikis and databases for game design documents.
- Free + paid plans
- Good for beginners
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