Welcome
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Choose the fastest path through the docs based on your role and what you need to do first.
New to Storyarn? Start by choosing the path that matches what you need to do first. You do not need to read the documentation in order; each path points you to the guides that matter for that workflow.
Pick your path
| If you are… | Start with | Then read |
|---|---|---|
| A writer or narrative designer creating dialogue and branching scenes | Create a Workspace and Your First Flow | Flows Overview, Dialogue Nodes, Condition Nodes |
| A game designer or world builder defining characters, items, stats, and state | Your First Sheet | Sheets Overview, Blocks & Variables, Table Blocks |
| A developer or technical designer preparing engine integration | Core Workflow and Export | Debug Mode, Instruction Nodes |
| A localization manager or producer planning translation work | Localization Overview | Dialogue Nodes, Export |
| A narrative lead running story workshops and turning ideas into decisions | Brainstorming Overview | Rounds, Privacy, and Timer, Decisions, Decisions in Your Content |
| A producer or project owner managing people, media, templates, and recovery | Project Dashboard | Assets, Project Settings, Snapshots and Trash |
The core model
Storyarn projects are built from a few connected concepts:
- Sheets hold structured world data such as characters, locations, items, stats, and flags.
- Blocks are the typed fields inside sheets. Most blocks can become variables.
- Flows use nodes to build dialogue, branching logic, conditions, and instructions.
- Scenes place narrative content in spatial maps, zones, pins, and exploration flows.
- Brainstorming sessions explore ideas together and record the decisions that change sheets, flows, and scenes.
- Assets provide the shared image and audio library used by project content.
- Localization extracts user-facing text so it can be translated, reviewed, and exported.
- Export moves project content into engine-friendly formats.
Recommended first session
If you are evaluating Storyarn for the first time, spend your first session on this sequence:
- Read What is Storyarn? to understand the product shape.
- Create a workspace and project with Create a Workspace.
- Build a character sheet with Your First Sheet.
- Build a branching dialogue with Your First Flow.
- Open Debug Mode when you want to verify why a branch was taken.
After that, use the sidebar by workflow: project operations in Project Management, world data in World Building, dialogue and logic in Narrative Design, spatial content in Scene Design, early exploration and decisions in Brainstorming, translation in Localization, and delivery in Export.