Setup templates and customize your data-fields

Create powerful databases and reusable custom data for your game components, then connect them to your design templates.

Forgefire is a fully customizable development environment that handles everything from simple cards to advanced setups, and supports procedural generation of data fields and entire components.

Quickly setup templates for your components in a variety of data formats (including advanced custom data options). Changes to your templates will immediately push to the work environment.

Create powerful database frameworks for your game elements

Forgefire lets you break down your cards into text, number, and image elements, enabling you to create comprehensive databases.

It supports an unlimited number of card types, each with its own unique data and templates.

  • Create advanced custom data fields, such as fields connected to other cards

  • Quickly create fields with text, rich text, numbers, images, checkbox, and more

  • Designate which fields are subject to localization in foreign languages

  • Attach data attributes to custom data list, which may include custom images, to prevent repeat data entry

Connect Forgefire to your design templates

Forgefire integrates with your Adobe InDesign templates, mapping each data field to its corresponding InDesign element for a seamless preview of your cards in their final form.

This is a one-time setup. Once configured, Forgefire can manage previews and final outputs for all cards using that design.

Each card can be linked to multiple design templates, enabling you to create alternate designs, such as “alternate art” cards, while using the same data.

  • Rapidly merge layout elements with data fields using the Forgefire data-merge dialog

  • Each of your game components can be matched to any number of design templates.

  • Use advanced functions to enable default behaviors, render QR codes, generate UUID’s, specify positioning of overlaying design templates, and much more.

Export your card design from Adobe Indesign into Forgefire, and map InDesign elements to the corresponding Forgefire data fields.

Connect fonts, styles, and glyphs

Import your desired fonts and styles, and grant access to custom characters directly from the rich text editor.

  • Import character and paragraph styles directly from Indesign, for use in the Forgefire rich-text editor

  • Upload fonts with ease

  • Designate custom Unicode Characters for direct glyph access in the Forgefire rich text editor

Additional workspaces may be acquired to host each of your game lines

Multiple game lines? No problem. Get a Workspace for each

The requirements and complexity of different game lines can vary substantially.

Forgefire allows publishers to create additional “workspaces” for each of their games. Each workspace is an independent, customizable database instance to host your templates, preferences, data, and custom logic.

So get your game developers ready: it’s time to start forging great games!

Excited?

Forgefire is an expansive and powerful game development tool with myriad options. Our team would be happy to provide a demonstration of the tool to you and your colleagues.