Learning Game Design with Arcade Berg

yEd – Graph Editor

A couple of weeks ago a reader on this blog, gutek, recommended using a tool called yEd.

I have, and I like it!

yEd is a very powerful graph editor that can be used to quickly and effectively generate drawings and to apply automatic layouts to a range of different diagrams and networks.

yEd is available as a free download with unrestricted functionality!

http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html (17/8/09)

I decided to do a flowchart for a game I'm working on and thought I could just as well try out yEd in a "live project" instead of just trying to play around with it. I usually use Visio for this kind of thing.

And after just 20 minutes, I loved it. It's super easy to use and has a friendly interface. It's definately worth the price of 200 nothing.

So if you're about to work with a flowchart, a diagram or something similar, I highly recommend yEd.

It's now part of my game design toolbox!