: Re: What software/techniques do people use to gather ideas? I'm planning to create a game. It won't be the first game I've created (or even released), but it will be my first game with any story

I plan in Scapple by Literature and Latte. It's sort of a mind map story board.

At the time of writing this, it's only .99 so very reasonably priced, really easy to use and the technical support is fantastic.

Every possible idea for my story goes into Scapple. I gather pictures of characters, lists of names and titles, I write out bits of dialogue and make notes for scenes. It all goes in until I'm ready to do a full story plan.

The great thing about it, unlike storyboarding on paper, is that you'll never run out of space (the board just grows and grows), you can export all the text and import it into your writing software and even copy and paste pictures across if you need to.

This is my next novel, gradually coming together:

You can download a free trial and see how you like it: www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple/overview
Happy plotting!

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