Question 1

🟦 Airtable

Accepted Answer

Example: https://creator.celestory.io/project/X2hu1xLcU

Airtable base link: https://airtable.com/universe/expv5ePD2Qfw7lIlK/nocode-serious-game-data-base

🟦 Airtable block

This block allows you to exchange with your database of your Airtable account (collaborative online spreadsheet).

1) To start using the Airtable block, you must Enable integrations

(Main Menu/Integrations). You must enter your API Airtable key which allows you to

this connection to one of your databases (i.e. your spreadsheets).

2) Copy the API key located by clicking on your profile picture, then "Account". In

On the "Account overview" page, the API section displays a pink area. Double-click on it and copy the key. Back in the Celestory integrations menu, paste it.

3) You can now create Airtable blocks. This is an evolving block. Start by selecting your database, then your table (this is your sheet).

From then on, 4 operations are proposed to you:

Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete

➕ Airtable operations

As a reminder, each line of y

Question 2

🟩 Start

Accepted Answer

The Start block is used to start each graph. Therefore, it is not possible to erase it.

Question 3

🟩 Load video

Accepted Answer

Example link: https://creator.celestory.io/project/OqkScT5D5

The Upload video block allows to create a video value which can then be sent to another block via a constituent point. It allows to use the url of a video (direct link) to display it in the user interface.

To display a video player, like YouTube, read this article: https://documentation.celestory.io/en/article/insert-a-youtube-video-1horjlj/

Here we have indicated the direct link of the video in the url field of the block.

By connecting the output value with the constituent point of another compatible block (here, the media point of the Video Choice block), we can play the video file from Celestory's built-in player.

Now you know how to use the Load video block.

Question 4

🎭 Visual Novel

Accepted Answer

${youtube}🎭VISUAL NOVEL

Example link: https://creator.celestory.io/project/ETZKLG0ZZ

🔺 To activate the Visual Novel, you must create a new Module and choose the Visual Novel Template.

The Template created by default in a new project is the Chatbot Template.

Only the blocks linked to one of the templates are not compatible with the other.

🎭 Visual novel

In Celestory, there are 3 types of blocks: logic blocks, blocks linked to a template and blocks not linked to a template.

There are 2 templates: Chatbot and Visual Novel.

If the Chatbot template displays a wall for publishing messages, the Visual Novel template has several particularities:

It is made up around the scene, a decor that is cut in X places of the same width, which adapt to the size of the screen.
The characters have dialog images (a still image to the left of each dialog to indicate who is speaking) and moods, each of which can be associated to an image.
It has new blocks to animate the characters.
The actions of the blocks have delays.
It is compatible with an animation software that allows to have skeletons with 2D or 3D effects: Spine.

More info: Spine's website Example of Spine skeleton:

🏃🚶 Animating the characters

The specific blocks

Question 5

🟦 Format text

Accepted Answer

Blocks containing a text stack now have the same capacity as the Text Format block. Therefore, all of the next description is also correct for these blocks.

The Format block is a block which allows you to replace certain variables (to be indicated by an unknown between singletons {{ }} which will create a point with the name of this unknown to be linked to the block of the corresponding variable). These variables can be numeric or textual, and will be replaced by their current value in the flow (example: This Format text block must be connected to the empty text point of an existing block (for example the Dialog block), the text of the Format text block replacing it .

Question 6

🗄 Side menu (Modules)

Accepted Answer

Modules Menu

The Module Menu is located just to the left of the graph. It can be collapsed or expanded also, like all windows, can be made transparent.

Each game project is divided into modules, which are the "chapters" of the game. All modules share the same project variables.

Each module shares the same set of design settings ( dialogue box, font, bubble types…) and characters.

To change its settings, go to Module settings below each graph group of each module.

More information in 🗂 Module settings

Having several modules helps to classify your story in different chapters, to keep it organised and to split the story over several modules, which is highly recommended to improve the Creator's performances. To switch from one module to another is easy thanks to the "Open a graph" block, in which you can set a "Entrance" and an "Exit" in other modules.

You can also return your tree flow to an "Open menu" block.

More information in 📑 Create menu

Each module starts with a Start graph. It is a root graph that can be sent to an infinite number of subgraphs of this same module (via the Open a graph block).

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