Drafft 2 - New features overview
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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 Enhancements: The project manager now displays metadata for each project. You can download sample projects to get started quickly.
- Tab-Based Interface: Draft version 2 features a tab-based interface, allowing you to open multiple documents simultaneously. Each tab has a buffer to track changes, enabling you to undo and restore previous versions.
- Keyboard Shortcuts: New keyboard shortcuts have been added for common actions, such as unlocking documents (F2) and quick-loading the last used project (Ctrl F9). Use Ctrl+P to access the document picker.
- Document Picker: The document picker (Ctrl+P) lets you quickly navigate and search through all your documents. You can filter by document type (script, dialogue, GDD). Filters are saved even after restarting the app.
- Favorites: Documents can be marked as favorites for quick access.
- Revisions: Every time you save a document, a new revision is created. You can restore previous versions using the document info panel. The app supports a limited number of revisions (15-20). This is useful for multi-user setups.
- JSON Schema: The document schema has been updated. All content now resides under the “content” property (e.g., script lives under content script).
- Media Management: Draft version 2 supports media files within the database. Media files are stored as attachments, which can be opened in tabs. There is a backend image processor library.
- GDD Editor: The GDD (Game Design Document) editor is now exclusively Markdown-based. You can insert links to other documents (actors, dialogues, images). Images are linked using a special protocol (
draft://image/ID
). - Script Editor: The script editor includes autocompletion for commands and actors. You can use the document picker (Ctrl+Shift+P) to insert links to other documents.
- Dialogue Editor: The dialogue editor has been significantly improved with React Flow. It now supports proper undo/redo functionality (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Shift+C). New node types include script, choice, start, end, return, and jump. Nodes can be customized with titles and notes. A dialogue player is available for testing conversations. It is possible to link to a specific node and script in the app.
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Status | In development |
Category | Tool |
Author | baj |
Genre | Visual Novel |
Tags | cms, dialogue, dialogue-editor, Game Design, gamedev, game-planner, project-management, quest-editor, writing |
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New version looks awesome, great job!
Thanks Alex! Hopefully I’ll have the beta version ready to download soon.
Agreed, looks really nice! Any update on when this might be the case
Beta available here: https://drafft.dev