drafft

Devlog

• Moving Forward: Drafft's Future
  April 02, 2025 by baj

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  #dialogue tree, #scripting, #writing, #visual novel

  A Heartfelt Thank You Drafft started as a passion project—an attempt to make game development workflows smoother, more centralized, and less chaotic. Thanks to your support, it has grown into someth... Continue reading

  
• Drafft 2 - New features overview
  February 24, 2025 by baj

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  #game-development, #dialogue tree, #script, #visual novel, #gdd, #game design document

  Drafft version 2 introduces a suite of new features and improvements designed to streamline the game development documentation process. Here’s a rundown of the key updates: Project Management Enhanc... Continue reading

  
• Drafft 2 Devlog - Keyboard Shortcuts
  January 30, 2025 by baj#tool, #writing, #workflow, #drafft, #visual-novel, #scripting, #repository

  Hello, v2 is taking shape! The next big thing to rework is the dialog tree editor, but in the meantime, I’ve added some handy shortcuts to speed up workflows. Here’s what’s in the video: 🎮 Ke... Continue reading
• Drafft 2 - Image embed and document references.
  April 03, 2024 by baj

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  #visual novel, #gdd, #game design, #game planner, #scripting, #writing, #productivity

  A little video showing Image handling and document references in gdds for the upcoming drafft v2... Continue reading
• Drafft 1.4.3 - Fix "Can't add or detect actors bug" in Windows
  March 24, 2024 by baj

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  #gdd, #gamedev, #writing, #visual novel, #point and click

  This release just fix this annoying bug windows users were facing... Continue reading
• The future of Drafft
  March 13, 2024 by baj

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  #drafft, #gdd, #writing, #game design, #tool, #organization

  The future of Drafft Hello there, a major update is coming to Drafft in near future, this entry will try to summarize what I’ve been working on. A bit of history first, I started writing this app... Continue reading

  
• Drafft 1.4.2 - Bugfixes
  August 31, 2023 by baj

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  1.4.2 - 2023-08-31 Fix: Script player not working case insensitive. Fix: Actor Toolbar export script not showing up. Maintenance: Add content to quick start docs... Continue reading
• Bugfix update
  August 28, 2023 by baj#game organizer, #design document, #writing, #game planner

  1.4.1 - 2023-08-27 Fix: Export button not working... Continue reading
• Drafft 1.4 REST api for getting content
  August 19, 2023 by baj#gdd, #scripting, #game planner, #game database, #game dev, #writing, #visual nover, #REST API

  1.4.0 - 2023-08-19 Feature: Add a simple REST api to get the game content and a database dump. Docs here Maintenance: Update quickstart docs... Continue reading
• Drafft 1.3.2
  August 10, 2023 by baj#visual novel, #branching, #dialogue tree editor, #game design, #gamedev tool, #scripting, #screenplay

  1.3.2 - 2023-08-09 Fix: Fix default editor language not applying on items and misc collections. Fix: Add TOML as default editor language... Continue reading
• Drafft 1.3.0 - Big maintenance plus a few features.
  August 03, 2023 by baj

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  #game planner, #writing, #visual novel, #gdd, #game design document, #dialogue tree editor, #sceenplay generation

  This release includes a LOT of maintenance fixes and big changes in the bundler. Please do a backup before trying and I would recommend testing it with a dummy project first. 1.3.0 - 2023-08-01 IMPORT... Continue reading
• Drafft 1.2.2 - GML language support
  April 02, 2023 by baj

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  #gml, #gamemaker, #scripting, #game dev, #tools, #dialogue

  1.2.2 - 2023-04-2 Feature: Game Maker Language (GML) support for scripts. Feature: Dialogue script can now have a related language... Continue reading
• Drafft v1.2.1 - Minor Fixes
  February 14, 2023 by baj

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  1.2.1 - 2023-02-14 Fix: Fix autosave not properly stopping when adding new document. Fix: Minor CSS/theme fixes... Continue reading
• Drafft v1.2.0 - Now with markdown support.
  February 11, 2023 by baj

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  #gdd, #game planner, #game design, #writing, #visual novel

  Drafft v1.2.0 This update brings a new, complementary GDD markdown editor, using the incredible Milkdown library. This still in beta so please try it in backed up projects SPECIALLY if you want to try... Continue reading

  
• Drafft 1.1.6 Update
  February 06, 2023 by baj

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  #gdd, #visual novel, #game planner, #dialogue maker

  1.1.6 - 2023-01-30 Feature: Add Spellchecker toggle and Spellchecking language options for GDD and bio editor. Feature: Add single gdd/actor bio export to word document (.doc) Feature: Generated tags... Continue reading
• Bugfixes
  January 17, 2023 by baj

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  #gdd, #gamedev tool, #scripting, #visual novel, #writing, #bugfixes

  1.1.5 - 2023-01-16 Fix crash when clicking on a grid folder. Fix GDD toolbar toggling not working properly... Continue reading
• Drafft 2023 Update
  January 02, 2023 by baj

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  #update, #cleaunp, #drafft, #game planner

  1.1.4 - 2023-01-02 Ability to set up grid column min width. More compact grids and smaller fonts. More compact tags in todo card. Fix crash when opening a todo details card in readonly mode. Fix wrong... Continue reading

  
• Drafft: Selective Exports
  June 27, 2022 by baj#game tool, #organization, #planner

  v1.1.1 Brings a little feature that allows the user to specify which objects to include in the export file. Also fixes an issue with gdd section opening a blank page on some systems... Continue reading

  
• Drafft 1.1.0 Released. Grids!
  April 14, 2022 by baj

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  This 2022 release brings a lot of base changes to the code that will make the app easier and faster to update. Additionally Drafft now has a new section called grids, where data can be input in an exc... Continue reading

  
• Sample projects to get you started!
  April 17, 2021 by baj#writing, #gamedev, #planning, #examples, #visual novel, #point and click

  I’ve made a repo with two sample projects to get started with Drafft and showcase its features. Check it out here: https://github.com/ajboni/drafft-examples Stay safe!... Continue reading

  
• Drafft - Update v1.0.21 - Dialogue Player
  April 09, 2021 by baj#dialogue, #visual novel, #scripting, #writing, #gamedev, #story, #branching

  Drafft 1.0.21 - 2021-04-09 Dialogue/Script Player: Show branching options choices on a choice node., and let the user click to advance. Dialogue/Script Player: Double click on a line will now advance... Continue reading

  
• Drafft - Update v1.0.20
  April 08, 2021 by baj#scripts, #dialogue editor, #game development

  1.0.20 - 2021-04-08 Dialogue editor: Right Clicking on canvas deselects selected node and shows default popup. Keyboard navigation on script player. Fix actor Expression not refreshing after uploading... Continue reading
• Drafft: Quality of Life update
  March 22, 2021 by baj

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  #writing, #planning, #gamedev, #visual novel, #gdd

  1.0.18 - 2021-03-21 Include hotkey panel in dialogue editor. Renaming dialogue now shows the current name by default. Fix autosave bug in GDD. Fix right clicking on a different dialogue node not chang... Continue reading
• Drafft - Update v1.0.15
  March 09, 2021 by baj

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  #writing, #game planning, #gamedev, #tool

  1.0.15 - 2021-03-09 Possibility to list untagged speech lines in actor properties. Less obstructive notifications. Fix #10 - “Auto detect actors” should also create default expression portrait Fix... Continue reading
• Plan your game Drafft
  March 04, 2021 by baj#game planner, #dialogue, #dialogue editor

  Speechr is now Drafft As the app grew bigger I feel that the name does not cover all the functionality and was a bit misleading. Also, the licensing model on itch.io and having two different products... Continue reading