Grimlore team did some great deal of writing the integration and export to their used game engine using the articy:draft provided MDK to write plugins. With this approach content/plugins from different contributors can be integrated into one target game without having ID conflicts. This too was a feature that was taken over from the multi-user version. Grimlore team set up a web service to provide a plugin-Id that was integrated into the ID generation of content objects in articy:draft. We provided a tool that allows Grimlore to create and digitally sign their template project, so they can update and publish that without a constant back and forth. With that it was possible to structure a template project in such a manner that reference content was in partition files that were separate from those the user can modify. The solution for that was to use articy:draft functionality that is normally used only for multi-user projects, the partitions. It also should be updatable from their side. Peter Sabath – Articy Software: One of the challenges was that the team at Grimlore needed to provide reference content that should be useable, but read-only.
With this approach we can for example create an entity like a NPC both as the participant in a dialogue and we can place the same entity in a location (level) as a reference without having a tool that is used for dialogue writing only and another tool that places content to the game world.Īrticy: Peter, what technical challenges did you face in creating a special app version that is distributed for free to the SpellForce 3 community? With that we can write dialogues, plan narrative content and fill the world of the game using only one tool. We created an export plugin to export it to our game data so that the game can use it. articy:draft had the ability to deal with both, so we added the possibility to create map logic, quests, NPCs, factions and many other game logic issues to articy:draft to have it as a one-tool solution. Because our games have a lot of content we also needed multi user editing in all our tools.
We had a need for game logic tools which are connected to quests and narrative. Johannes Scheer – Grimlore Games: When we were working on the content creation pipeline for development we were using articy:draft for writing dialogues. How did it come about that you included it in the game’s modding tools? Articy: You used articy:draft for the development of SpellForce 3.
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