Writing
Develop stories through manuscripts, characters, locations, timelines, narrative structure and related creative material.
Ch. 14 — Vera crossed to the observatory before dawn.
ManuscriptsCharactersTimelines
Creative workspace & platform
A workspace for developing creative work
Scripveil is a creative workspace and platform for developing and organizing creative projects. Whether you write, make films, build games or create visual art, everything that belongs to a project stays connected in one place.
Project
Example projectThe Cartographer's Debt
Film · In development
CharacterLinked to 3 items
Vera Kess
ObservatoryScene 14Scene 22
Confirm observatory accessIn progress
Costume fitting for VeraTo do
What Scripveil is
A workspace for developing creative work — not a collection of disconnected tools.
Everything in Scripveil lives inside a project. A project gives your creative work the structure to be developed, organized, connected and collaborated on.
Developed
Creative work is developed inside the project, from the first idea onward.
Organized
Characters, locations, references and tasks each have a place.
Connected
Related information stays linked instead of being repeated.
Collaborated on
People join a project with a role, and the access the project gives them.
Four domains
Made for four kinds of creative work.
Scripveil supports Writing, Film, Game Development and Visual Arts. Each has its own material to develop, and each works the same way: inside a project.
Film
Develop and manage film and episodic productions through story, script, characters, scenes, cast, crew, locations, departments and production workflows.
14 INT. OBSERVATORY — NIGHT
22 EXT. HARBOR STEPS — DAWN
ScenesCast & crewDepartments
Game Development
Develop games through design, mechanics, systems, characters, levels, narrative, assets, production and development workflows.
Mechanic→Level→Asset
MechanicsLevelsAssets
Visual Arts
Create and develop visual works through drawing, illustration, design, composition, characters, environments, references and visual assets.
IllustrationCompositionReferences
How projects work
Everything begins with a project.
A project is where creative work is kept and developed. It holds the work itself, the information around it, and the people involved.
1
Project
The central container for a piece of creative work.
2
Foundation
Set the project's domain and purpose, and the material it builds on.
3
Creative Work
The writing, scenes, designs, systems or artwork you make.
4
Organization
Characters, locations, references and tasks, kept in order.
5
Collaboration
Bring in people with the roles and access they need.
6
Development
Move the project forward, from early idea to finished work.
A project in Scripveil
See what a project looks like.
Here is an example project. Its name, people and details are fictional, but the pieces are the ones every project is built from.
Project / The Cartographer's Debt
Illustrative exampleProject
The Cartographer's Debt
Domain: FilmStatus: In development
Team
Maya Ortiz
Writer
Priya Nair
Costume Designer
Sam Holloway
Casting Director
Lena Fischer
Producer
Project information
Characters
Vera KessTomas Reyes
Locations
ObservatoryHarbor Steps
Scenes
- Scene 14 · Observatory, night
- Scene 22 · Harbor Steps, dawn
Work
Tasks
- Confirm observatory accessIn progress
- Costume fitting for VeraTo do
- Cast Tomas ReyesTo do
Milestones
- First script draftDone
- Location reviewUpcoming
- Casting decisionUpcoming
ConnectedVera Kess→Observatory→Scene 14→Confirm observatory access
Illustrative example. The project, people and details shown are fictional.
One system, four practices
One connected project. Four ways of creating.
Every Scripveil project shares the same foundation: its information, people, tasks and history stay connected. What sits on top is shaped by the work. A writer works from a manuscript and a story bible, a production from a breakdown, a game team from specifications and builds, an artist from a development board.
Illustrative example
Writing: Manuscript and story bible.
The Cartographer's Debt · Chapter 14
Vera1 climbed the last flight to the observatory2 before the light went. The coast had moved again, exactly as Tomas3 had warned, and not one of the maps on the table was any use.
1 · Character
Vera Kess
Point of view. Arc: apprentice becoming a reluctant witness.
2 · Location
The Observatory
Also Chapters 3 and 19. Tower above the harbor.
3 · Character
Tomas Reyes
His warning from Chapter 9 comes true here.
4 · Timeline
Autumn fair, Year 812
Chapter 22 dates Vera's arrival after it.
Role-based collaboration
One project. Different roles, different access.
Collaborators join a project with a professional role, such as writer or producer. What each of them can open is decided by the project, not by the role name alone.
Choose a collaboratorExample
Character
Vera Kess
- Project role
- Writer
- Access
- Story and character material
- Voice & dialogueClipped, avoids first names
- Story arcFrom distrust to conviction
- TemperamentGuarded, warm underneath
- Eye colorNot shared with this person
- WardrobeNot shared with this person
- Age rangeNot shared with this person
- ScheduleNot shared with this person
- LocationsNot shared with this person
A role describes the work someone does on the project. Access is what the project lets them open.
Across domains
Creative disciplines overlap. Projects can too.
These aren't extra domains. They're examples of how the four domains can meet inside a project.
Writing+Visual Arts
Illustrated stories
The characters and settings written in a story can carry into the visual work that depicts them.
Character→Illustration
Writing+Film
Stories for screen
A story's scenes, characters and locations can carry into script and production planning.
Ch. 14 → Scene 14
Writing+Game Development
Interactive narrative
Story material, characters and locations can inform a game's narrative and levels.
Story beat→Level
Visual Arts+Game Development
Art for games
Characters, environments and references can inform a game's visual assets.
Concept art→Game asset
Contextual intelligence
Support for your work, not a replacement for it.
Scripveil supports the creator's work and project context rather than replacing the creator's creative decisions. The ideas, the choices and the finished work stay yours.
Learn about Scripveil AIProject context
Assistance draws on what is already in your project: its characters, locations, notes and references.
Entity understanding
Characters, places and other project items are understood as connected parts of the project, not loose text.
Continuity
Helps you keep track of how details in a project relate, so mismatches are easier to notice.
One project
One character, four visual languages.
Written in a manuscript, broken down for a shoot, specified for a game and drawn on a design sheet. One project holds all four.
Planned · preview
Coming to Scripveil: rename a character once and every domain follows. This preview runs only in your browser; nothing you type is saved or sent.
01 · Writing
A character on the page
In the manuscript she is a point of view, with the story bible keeping her history in the margin.
The Cartographer's DebtChapter 14
Vera climbed the last flight to the observatory before the light went. The coast had moved again, and not one of the maps on the table was any use.
1 · Character
Vera Kess
Point of view. Apprentice becoming a reluctant witness.
02 · Film
A part in the breakdown
On the production she is a cast number, a wardrobe plot and a shoot day, tagged by department.
22 · EXT. HARBOR STEPS · DAWNDay 5 of 18
Cast
1 · Vera Kess
Wardrobe
Vera: ochre coat, wet
Makeup and hair
Wet hair, cold skin tone
Camera
Handheld, 35mm
Vera and Tomas reach the harbor as the tide turns.
03 · Game Development
A role in the design
In the game she is a playable guide with states, triggers and the levels she appears in.
Character · Playable guide
Vera Kess
- Wary
- Guide
- Trusted
- Trigger
- The player keeps the lantern lit
- Appears in
- The Observatory, the Harbor Steps
04 · Visual Arts
A figure on the sheet
On the design sheet she is a turnaround, a palette and the notes the artist works from.
Character design · Sheet VD-03
Vera Kess
She dresses for weather, not for anyone: nothing decorative except the brass.
Illustrative example. The project and its people are fictional, and these are drawings for this page, not screenshots of the application.
Start a project
Bring your next creative project to Scripveil.
Develop your work in one connected project, with its information, its people and its progress together.