Arcweave
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What is Arcweave
Arcweave is a web-based narrative design and interactive storytelling tool used to plan branching dialogue, quests, and story logic for games and interactive media. It provides a visual graph editor and structured data fields to help writers and designers collaborate and keep narrative content consistent. Teams commonly use it to prototype narrative flow and export story data for implementation in a game engine or custom pipeline. It focuses on narrative structure and content management rather than full game creation or runtime analytics.
Visual branching narrative modeling
Arcweave centers on a node-and-connection graph for representing branching storylines, dialogue trees, and conditional paths. This format helps teams review narrative flow and identify dead ends or missing transitions earlier in development. It also supports organizing narrative elements (characters, locations, items) as reusable entities to reduce duplication across a project.
Collaboration-friendly web workflow
As a browser-based tool, Arcweave supports distributed teams that need a shared source of truth for narrative content. It is designed for writers, narrative designers, and game designers who may not work directly in a game engine. Compared with general-purpose code repositories, it provides narrative-specific structure that is easier for non-engineering contributors to maintain.
Exportable structured story data
Arcweave is built to produce structured narrative data that can be handed off for implementation. This supports pipelines where narrative content is authored outside the engine and then integrated by developers. The approach can reduce manual copy/paste and help keep narrative logic aligned with implementation when exports are used consistently.
Not a full game engine
Arcweave does not replace an engine or a complete game creation environment. Teams still need separate tooling for gameplay scripting, asset pipelines, builds, and deployment. Organizations expecting an end-to-end development stack will need additional products and integration work.
Integration requires engineering effort
Exported narrative data typically needs custom importers or middleware to be used in a specific engine and dialogue system. The level of effort depends on the target runtime format, localization approach, and how conditions/variables are represented. Without a standardized pipeline, teams may face rework when narrative structures change.
Limited coverage beyond narrative
Arcweave focuses on narrative design rather than telemetry, crash reporting, live-ops services, or community/mod distribution. Studios that need production monitoring, player analytics, or live content operations must use separate specialized platforms. This can increase tool sprawl for teams seeking a consolidated suite.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | $0 — Free Forever | 200 items per project; up to 3 projects per workspace; unlimited members & guests; 5 MB max file upload; 50 MB asset storage per project; JSON & basic exports (CSV); PDF/Markdown/XLSX not included; commercial use not included. |
| Pro | $15 per member/month (billed yearly) — $18 per member/month (billed monthly) | Everything in Basic plus: unlimited items & projects; 100 MB max file upload; 1 GB asset storage per project; Backup & Import projects; additional exports (PDF, Markdown, XLSX); commercial use included. |
| Team | $25 per member/month (billed yearly) — $30 per member/month (billed monthly) | Everything in Pro plus: API access; project history; localization; custom member roles; priority support; 10 GB asset storage per project; additional admin features. |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing (Yearly only) | Everything in Team plus: unlimited members/guests; SSO; LMS integration; centralized administration; dedicated onboarding & account manager; premium support & guaranteed SLAs. |
