RetroAchievements Guide Designer

A comprehensive editor for creating and managing wiki guides for the RetroAchievements platform. This tool streamlines the guide-creation process, providing a user-friendly interface to manage complex structures without needing to write raw Markdown.

Features

• Structured Editing: A tree view and dedicated editors for managing the guide's header, achievement categories, achievements, collectibles, leaderboards, and credits.
• JSON Import: Quickly scaffold a new guide by importing an official RetroAchievements JSON file to populate achievements and points.
• Markdown Export: Generates a clean, standardized, and ready-to-use Markdown file for the RetroAchievements wiki.
• Spell Checking: Integrated spell checker for all text fields to help maintain high-quality writing.
• Multi-Select & Drag-and-Drop: Easily re-order achievements and categories.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

You must have the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime (x64) installed to run this application.

• Download .NET 8 Desktop Runtime
• RA Guide Designer – The Complete Tutorial

Installation

1. Go to the Releases page.
2. Download the latest RAGuideDesigner.zip file.
3. Extract the contents of the zip file to a folder on your computer.
4. Run RAGuideDesigner.exe.

Building from Source

This project is built with .NET 8 and Windows Forms.

1. Clone the repository.
2. Open RAGuideDesigner.sln in Visual Studio 2022 or later.
3. Build the solution (the required NuGet packages will be restored automatically).

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.