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Narrat

Narrat is a narrative game engine for text-based games with many features to make games more interactive than your average visual novel

What is narrat?
Narrat is a game engine for easily creative interactive narrative games with RPG elements. It can create games for the web and desktop.
This example shows the script of a game and the result on screen when playing.
Example screenshot of narrat script next to its result
There is an online demo available. It contains a built version of the narrat game demo​
Getting Started
It's easy to get a narrat game running in a minute with the getting started guide
Getting Started
Example script and config
Example narrat script
Example Config
The sidebar on the left of this documentation has various sections worth looking at
Guides: General guides on how to do things with the engine
Features: Introduction to specific features and how to use them
Functions Documentation: API Documentation for every command available to game scripts
Features
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Easy script syntax for writing games without "real code"
Branching, conditions and variables
Multiple characters with configurable poses
Themable UI (with CSS, explained in the docs)
Skills and skill checks (dice rolls against skill levels) system
Interactive visual screens alongside the dialogue
HUD for currency or other stats
save/load
audio
notifications
Exports to web or PC
Inventory
Quests
... and more
How it works
A narrat game is a web app built around Vue.js. It is composed of the following things:
The narrat template, which is a simple web app setup with narrat pre-installed and ready to use
Some config files defining characters, assets and dialogue scripts
Dialogue scripts, which are the actual content of your game
See the Editing a narrat game page for more info on how games work

Narrat 2.0

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Contents

What is narrat?

Getting Started

Example script and config

Features

How it works