Arcweave is a web-based #narrative game design tool for 🎮 #interactive experiences used by over 40K people across the globe. 🌐
Powerful, versatile, and collaborative, with seamless integration <> Unreal Engine, Unity, and Godot. #gamedev#seriousgames#gamedesign
Meet the Arcjam 2026 judges! Thank you to the writers and narrative designers giving their time to this year’s jam with the IGDA Game Writing SIG.
November 20–23. Get to know the panel:
game-writing.com/posts/meet-…
ALT Illustrated cover reading "Meet the judges!" for Arcjam 2026.
This is my first time using Arcweave, I am curious, how often do people assemble creatively in it before drafting or drawing notes outside of Arcweave?
Very good to hear. I will be participating in your jam this month, even though I am very bad at CSS, I am very good at writing and video game design so let's see what kind of squares I make.
We're sure you'll find your way around the Play Mode's CSS, using the Style Editor tutorials (docs.arcweave.com/tutorials/…) and Play Mode styling reference (docs.arcweave.com/project-to…) both from our Docs. And you can always pop in on our Discord for questions!
😵💫 Busy boards?
🛠️ Now drag your connection paths around elements instead of through them. Your flow stays clean and easy to read and build on.
Read how to edit your Arcweave connections👇 Link in the first comment. #narrativedesign#gamedesign
ALT Animated GIF demonstrating repositioning labels and changing the shapes of curvy and angled connections.
You instruct; the Design Assistant does the legwork:
✅ Describe scene logic; it builds conditions & variables.
✅ Say what an element does; it writes the Arcscript.
✅ Ask for story dead ends; it tracks them down.
Focus on the story, not search-and-repair. 👇Read how
ALT Animated GIF demonstrating how the Design Assistant follows instructions to design a branch with specific conditions and then check for dead ends in the story.
The @IGDAWritingSIG Arcjam is back! 🎮✍️
72 hours. One theme. Hundreds of stories!
Make a short narrative game in Arcweave, solo or in a team. Free to join, all levels welcome!
📅 Starts Nov 20 - Join now! Link 👇
#GameWriting#NarrativeDesign#GameJam
ALT On the left, the logos of Arcweave and IGDA Game Writing SIG over a half-full progress bar with the label Loading Game Jam... On the right, a cartoonish illustrator of a bird wearing glasses and typing on its laptop, with a mug of steaming coffee or tea at its side.
🎧 Get more control over your story's #audio 🔊
✅ Per audio asset: set default Volume and Fade In/Out.
✅ Per element: tweak fades & volume, add delays, and auto-stop on exit.
✅ Reset anything with one click.
Read how 👇
#GameDev#NarrativeDesign#Interactive#Storytelling
ALT Animated GIF demonstrating changing asset and element-level settings.
We have like 20-30% of localization done for LOCUS EQUATION at this point. Never thought that it is going to be such a long process. Like writing a whole new game from scratch. Tons of Arcweave projects, thousands of variables, elements, components. Everything translated by hand.
We built a test game twice with AI, from:
1️⃣ A design doc
2️⃣ An Arcweave project
Only the Arcweave version worked on the first try and changed only what we asked.
Read our blogpost about the whole experiment! Link in comments 👇 #gamedev#gamedesign
ALT A simple diagram of two source branches on the left pointing at one result on the right. The top left branch is "Design Document" and the bottom is "Arcweave Project". They both converge at a node that says "AI", which then points at the right side: a screenshot of a point and click adventure game.
Arcweave now has an MCP server 🤖 Connect Claude, Cursor, Codex and other AI assistants to your projects to summarize stories, inspect branching logic, build elements and connections, or export for your engine.
Setup guide: docs.arcweave.com/integratio…
ALT Dark Arcweave card with the headline 'Arcweave now has an MCP server', a 'Works with' row of Claude, Cursor and Codex badges, and a small Arcweave story graph where Mary the barkeep offers a traveller the usual or a rumour about the old lighthouse.
Our friends at @GlasshouseCRPG just released the GLASSHOUSE demo 🎭 A feudalpunk turn-based CRPG in a lockdown apartment block: 2 hours of play, 3 endings, English voice acting. Already Very Positive on Steam, and built with Arcweave 🧡
store.steampowered.com/app/2…
ALT GLASSHOUSE key art and logo, a feudalpunk turn-based CRPG by FLAT28
New in Arcweave: Copy & Paste from the board's context menu ✂️ Right-click an item to copy it, then right-click an empty spot to paste it right where you clicked. Small change, smoother flow. Live now.
ALT Arcweave board: right-clicking an element and choosing Copy, then right-clicking an empty spot and choosing Paste, which places the copy where you clicked.