SmartDraw

For my technical writing class I'm demonstrating how a data flow chart can be helpful in video game design/programming. I've found a very convenient tool for generating flow charts that look neat and are easily rearrangeable. SmartDraw lets you arrange the data stores, processes, and external sources on a page without cluttering up your chart with criss-crossing lines. This chart here is one possible approach I've considered for how to handle the artificial intelligence in a real-time strategy game I am trying to program (not very successfully, although way back in high school I did manage to get a simple 2D version of this game working, sans AI, with the help of my classmates in a programming/3D design class).