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Training Simulations: from storyboard to standalone serious game with Arcweave Play Mode

Written by Georgia Tsiamanta | December 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM

Training managers waste weeks on version control, developer handoffs, and LMS uploads every time a training scenario needs updating. Arcweave Play Mode eliminates all of that.

With Arcweave Play Mode, you turn a branching storyboard into a live, browser-based choice-based experience in one click. When your SME requests changes to dialogue, scoring rules, or decision branches, those updates go live instantly—no exports, no rebuilds, no IT tickets.

The old way vs. Arcweave Play Mode

Traditional training scenarios deployment:

  • Design in one tool, develop in another
  • 2-4 week turnaround for changes
  • SCORM packages that break between LMS updates
  • Developer dependency for every revision
  • Separate files for each language version

With Arcweave Play Mode:

  • Design and publish in one environment
  • Changes go live immediately
  • Share as a link or embed directly in any LMS
  • Self-service updates by learning designers
  • Multi-language support without content duplication

What is Arcweave Play Mode

Arcweave Play Mode is the built-in player that turns any Arcweave project into a live, browser-based interactive story or training scenario.

It runs your branching logic, conditions, and variables automatically, presenting learners with one scene at a time and letting them make choices that shape the outcome. Optional localization allows multi-language delivery without duplicating content, and updates go live instantly.

Live example

Here’s a taste of how a live Arcweave Play Mode scenario behaves inside a course or page. Learners and stakeholders can open it instantly, make choices, and experience the rich scenario just as intended.

Experience a Play Mode scenario firsthand! Click below to explore how it works.

Collaboration, live updates, and seamless sharing

Instructional designers, SMEs, training managers, and reviewers work together in a single live project. Everyone can co-edit in real time, leave comments on specific scenes, and see updates immediately—no exports, IT tickets, or redeployments needed.

Built-in version control tracks every change, so you can review, restore, or branch previous versions at any time. Stakeholders play the scenario themselves and directly add feedback in context, shortening review loops and keeping everyone aligned. Projects can be shared as a standalone browser link or embedded directly in any LMS, so learners and stakeholders always access the latest version.

Built for serious games and training simulations

Arcweave supports soft skills, compliance, safety, and decision-making training. Play Mode lets you:

  • Track key decisions with variables

  • Calculate scores or performance indicators

  • Gate content based on previous choices

  • Show tailored feedback or recap messages

💡 Works across multiple sectors including cybersecurity, compliance, leadership, health and safety, operations, customer-facing and commercial training. 

Typical scenarios include phishing simulations, ethical dilemmas, leadership conversations, workplace safety drills, customer service role play, onboarding journeys, sales simulations, and incident response training.

From narrative design tool to playable serious game

Arcweave Play Mode bridges the gap between design and delivery. Educators, instructional designers, SMEs, and serious game teams can work in a single visual environment and instantly publish playable content. Instead of exporting storyboards or handing off specifications, you share the actual experience. Stakeholders can play it, learners can train with it, and teams can iterate continuously.

Arcweave Play Mode turns interactive storytelling into a practical, scalable way to build serious games and decision-based training for the browser.