Livber in articy:draft · Oğuzhan Açıkalın

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Act 1 branches around the visit to Lilith’s house.

The act is a chain of flow fragments, one per scene. After dinner it splits in two, depending on whether Elbek leaves the table or eats, and both branches lead on to the end of the act or to an early epilogue.

Act 1 top-level flow in articy:draft: At the door, Dining transition and Dining main in a row, then Cellar door A and Cellar door B, leading to the epilogue or the end of the act. — Act 1 at the top level.

Each node above holds its own flow. Inside, the green bars are frame comments: they mark which storyboard frame a stretch of dialogue belongs to, the same FR numbers used on the Miro board.

The At the door flow in articy:draft: the opening narration branching into many short exchanges that rejoin before Yel and the door.

The Dining transition flow in articy:draft, branching dialogue between Elbek, Lilith and the narrator.

Act 2 connects the room scenes through the dungeon.

Act 2 is a run of rooms. After the cellar door shuts, the player goes up to the attic or down through the cellar. Clara waits in Room 2 or Room 3, Keenan in Room 8, and Leigea in Room 5, the last room, which carries the player into Act 3. Some routes, the attic among them, end the act in a silent epilogue instead.

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Act 2 in the game: the climb to the attic. Voices from the dark break into the Narrator's lines, the hatch opens on falling soil, and the attic beyond is full of white flowers.

Act 2 top-level flow in articy:draft: the prologue, the attic and Room 1, Clara in Room 2 or Room 3, then Rooms 6, 8, 7, 4 and 5, with the epilogue and the end of the act on the right. A dated review note sits under Room 4. — Act 2 at the top level. Red nodes are the two Clara rooms; the dashed note under Room 4 is a review comment left in the project.

The Act 2 prologue flow in articy:draft: the player and the narrator, branching before the choice to go up or down.

The Attic flow in articy:draft, with Lilith, the narrator and the player.

Act 3 reads earlier story state to resolve the endings.

Act 3 opens in a corrupted version of the house. The player settles Keenan’s and Clara’s stories, Lilith wakes, and the player chooses to see the truth or remember the past. Each side ends in three ways, and all six endings cut to black.

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Act 3 in the game: Lilith awakens. She sits up and takes Elbek back to the night of the ritual, five years ago, when he ran.

Act 3 top-level flow in articy:draft: the prologue loops out to Keenan's and Clara's resolutions, then Lilith awakens, then Truth: the ritual and Past: remembering, three endings each, all leading to The end. — Act 3 at the top level. Each ending node leads to a short closing line before the cut to black.

Two global flags carry the result of the first half into the second. Instruction nodes set them, and condition nodes read them when Lilith wakes.

LilithStatus.lilithTongue   // set in Keenan's resolution
LilithStatus.lilithFace     // set in Clara's resolution
// both are checked when Lilith awakens

The Act 3 prologue flow in articy:draft, with the player, the narrator, Keenan, Clara and Leigea. — Scenes from the first half of the act and the truth route.

Keenan’s resolution flow in articy:draft, with frame comments along the bottom. — Scenes from the first half of the act and the truth route.

The Endless singularity ending flow in articy:draft: a short exchange between the player and Lilith. — The endings. The two Loop again endings, one on each route, are built the same way, so only one is shown.

The Loop again ending flow in articy:draft: narration, the player and Lilith. — The endings. The two Loop again endings, one on each route, are built the same way, so only one is shown.

The project groups dialogue, characters and story state.

One flow fragment per scene, nested inside one per act, so the top level of each act reads like the scene list on the paper storyboard.
Frame comments (FRAME 1, FRAME 2A, FRAME 2B…) group the dialogue by storyboard frame. Alternate frames get letters, so the art team can see which lines play over which picture.
Speakers are entities (the player, the Narrator, Lilith, Keenan, Clara, Leigea, Yel and more), so every dialogue node shows who is talking, with a portrait where the character has one.
Story state is held in global variables. Two flags, LilithStatus.lilithFace and LilithStatus.lilithTongue, are set in Act 3 by instruction nodes and read by condition nodes.
Articy IDs travel with the plan: every section on the Miro board lists the IDs of its nodes, so the board and the project point at each other.
Review notes stay in the project. Dated comments and reminders sit next to the nodes they are about, like the note under Room 4 in Act 2.

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