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Quillscript, formerly known as Snowfall, is an Unreal Engine code plugin. It controls the story and narrative flow for RPGs, visual novels, and other story-driven games. Including player choices, story branching, conditions, code integration, and much more. All of that is done through an easy-to-use screenplay-style scripting language.
Writers have a screenplay-style scripting language to author their stories.
UI designers can easily create their own Dialog Boxes and Selection Boxes widgets using UMG full power.
Programmers can run their own custom code within script, either Blueprint or C++.
Using a simple set of story writing rules, which includes essential functionalities, like variables, conditions, choices, branching, and code execution; game developers, have a powerful yet straightforward markup language to work with, made with game writers in mind.
A scripting-based dialogue has many advantages over common dialogue systems like spreadsheets, graphs, and data assets. Scripts are plain-text files, meaning they are sequential structures, faster to write and iterate, and simpler to review, edit, follow, and track, just as source-control friendly.
Easy to use, no setup required
Dialogue and player choices
Conditions and conditional branching
Story flow control and navigation
Execute any Engine's or Project's Blueprint/C++ code from script and capture the return back to script
Variables and variables replacement
Easy to create a custom User Interface using UMG full power
Localizable out of the box
Integrates with any save system for persistence
Full Blueprint and C++ support
Any text editor can be used, there are no spreadsheets or complex data tables
Optional Visual Studio Code extension for syntax highlighting and autocompletion
Easy to customize and extend
To start with Quillscript, you need Unreal Engine installed and basic knowledge of how to use Unreal's Editor. Follow our Getting Started guide to begin authoring stories within Unreal Engine.
