1Templates
Start from 23 ready-made templates.
Core loop, level, state machine, dialogue tree, economy, GDD, HUD: you start from a filled-in example instead of a blank page. You can save your own templates too.
Solutions/By role
LEVEL
Draw the game first, then build it.
Draw the loop, the level, the enemy and the dialogue before you open the engine. Drawings are to measure, the team works on them at once, and each one is tied to a stage.
Draw levels to measure, start from 23 ready-made templates.
The Drawing window, piece by piece.
Scroll and it falls into place.
Drawings export as PNG or SVG.
2Loop
See the loop.
Draw the player's thirty seconds with arrows. Smart arrows route around shapes, and when a box moves, the line follows.
loop stepseconomy pieces3Logic
Draw the enemy and the dialogue.
In a state machine, conditions are written on the arrows; in a dialogue tree, choices branch. The programmer looks at the same drawing.
the condition sits on the arrowrule note4Measure
Talk about motion in numbers.
Jump height, gap width, glide time: the measure piece sits on the drawing, with the table beside it.
jump arcmeasure tableHow an idea gets into the game
A drawing tied to a stage becomes a card in Pipeline.
IdeaStarts from a template
DrawingThe team writes on it
LinkIt's tied to a stage
TaskIt becomes a job to do
TestThe result is written on the drawing
Your programs stay the same.
Devchaos doesn't replace your program, it stands beside it. Whichever one is open shows on your Studio card; there are 50 programs on the list, and you can add yours if it's missing.
Unity
Unreal
Godot
Tiled
LDtk
FigmaQuestions
Are the templates only for games?
The templates were made for game design. On a blank drawing, camera, light, stick figure and measure pieces work for any job, and you can save your own templates too.
Does it connect to Unity, Unreal or Godot?
Engine plug-ins are coming soon. Today Devchaos sees which program is open and the file name; with the plug-in, the open scene and selected object will show too.
Is there voice chat?
Not yet, it's coming soon. Voice rooms and camera are on the way. For now you use the room's text chat during a screen share.
Where do our files live?
You choose from three places: the Devchaos server (2 GB per project), a computer left on at the office, or your own cloud storage (such as Cloudflare R2, Amazon S3 or Backblaze).
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