It's a tool for writing non-linear stories using flows and nodes. Xtory can export all of its story flow files into compact binary, JSON, or with the use of plugins, any other format for you to use in your games and pipeline however you like.

I'm a game developer with a passion for games with good stories; Maybe you, too, always thought writing dialogue options should be done as a dialogue tree, and basically, word or traditional screenplay writing tools doesn't cut the job.

In the 2018, I started this project as a fork of Dialogger which I then modified with custom nodes for function calls to the engine, conditional options(based on game state), and localization. This version can be found here. For many years I've tried to rewrite this project with extendability as a general-purpose tool, But I tend to stop everything and start from scratch. I've restarted this project many times with many stacks such as Qt, AvaloniaUI, GTK, and even good old ImGUI.

In the end, I've chosen the slowest option, which is a react app wrapped in an Electron layer. But to be honest, The problem with many of the greatest Open Source software is poor UI design which prevents them from appealing to a wider audience, Blender transition from 2.7x to 2.8x and Musescore version 3.xx to 4.xx shows this in practice. So With the help of react, Using a web approach to design and borrowing heavily from VSCode UI/UX, I hope it's easier to make a clean and usable UI with less development effort. It also lowers the entry barrier for plugin developers who whish to customize the software for their own needs.

• Intuitive Node base approach to writing non-linear stories.
• Writing Conversations using nodes, With dialogue options and conditional scenarios.
• Character creator with back story and conversation tracking for writing better characters, NPCs, and stories.
• Xtory is Cross-Platform!
• It comes with Xtroy C runtime, A single header C99 runtime capable of providing API surface over xtory graphs both from binary packages and over debug port, allowing complete integration between engine/tooling and the xtory content as well as its editor
• Extendable with plugins
• Open source and free to use for writing stories, Both in commercial and personal projects.
• Easy to version control project structure, Emphasizing breaking down flows into sub-flows to enable teams to work on different parts of the story simultaneously.

Feel free to make issues and/or help with the development.

Licensing of this project might not be clear from looking at the Github auto-detected license attribute. The Xtory software itself is licensed under GPL3 for maximizing the openness of the tooling, However all the operational parts such as C runtime, plugins and the plugin API itself are licensed under MIT so you can modify and embed them in your own proprietary engines and workflows without any licensing concerns.