Arcweave vs Yarn Spinner

Arcweave is a collaborative platform for designing, playtesting, and shipping games, training scenarios, and branching narratives. Its node-based editor organizes story flows with reusable character, location, and item components. Authors can run choice-based versions, debug story logic, and publish playable links that work on any device. Teams can edit synchronously, comment and reply, and assign roles and permissions. AI tools include a text generator, design assistant, and text enhancer. Free open-source plugins connect projects with Unity, Unreal, and Godot, with real-time sync and localization support listed for each. Exports include JSON, CSV, XLSX, Markdown, and PDF. The REST API offers read and write access to project content on Team workspaces. Arcweave stores customer data and media on Google Cloud Platform and says production databases are backed up every six hours. The Basic plan is free forever but limited to three projects, 200 items per project, and non-commercial use. Pro starts at $15.00 per member per month with yearly billing.

Yarn Spinner is a set of tools for planning, writing, integrating, and testing dialogue for games. Its human-readable Yarn scripting language supports interactive conversations and branching narratives. Official integrations are available for Unity, Godot with C# or GDScript, and Unreal Engine with Blueprint or C++. The free, open-source Visual Studio Code extension adds syntax highlighting, error checking, a graph view, and an in-editor dialogue preview. Dialogue strings can be exported with unique IDs, and the system supports runtime language switching and Unity Localization. Voice-over features include audio asset management, synchronization with localization, and playback timing. Ready-made add-ons include speech bubbles and dialogue wheels; Text Animator is part of Yarn Spinner+. Try Yarn Spinner offers a browser-based space to write and run scripts without setup, but its scripts remain in browser storage and are not backed up or synchronized. The core is licensed under MIT. The Free plan costs nothing; Yarn Spinner+ for Unity costs 75.00 USD or more, once.