Storyfall Documentation
Storyfall is a platform for creating, publishing, and playing branching interactive fiction. These guides cover the platform from both the reader and writer perspective.
For Readers
New to Storyfall? Start here:
- Playing Stories - Find and play interactive stories, including guest access and multiplayer.
- Multiplayer - Play stories with friends using vote-based or cooperative multiplayer.
For Writers
Getting Started
- Creating Your First Story - Step-by-step guide from “New Story” to “Publish.”
- Tutorials - Learn Storyfall with pre-built tutorial stories in mystery, adventure, romance, horror, and RPG genres.
- Importing Stories - Bring in existing stories from Ink, Twine, or re-import Storyfall JSON backups.
Writing Your Story
- Editor - Write scenes, create choices, and organize your narrative.
- Variables & Conditions - Track stats, gate content, and create dynamic stories with variables, NPCs, and factions.
- Characters - Create playable protagonist templates with unique starting points, stats, scenes, and choices.
- Input Choices - Collect text input from players like names and dialogue.
- Teams - Invite collaborators to help write your story with role-based permissions.
Enhancements
- Themes & Styling - Customize colors, fonts, and decorative elements.
- Audio & Music - Add background music and sound effects to scenes and choices.
- Story Tree - Visualize your story structure, jump to scenes quickly, and find issues.
- Review Panel - Spell check, AI-powered narrative review, and structural QA checks in one panel.
- Spell Check - Catch spelling errors with inline checking and batch scanning.
Publishing & Community
- Publishing Your Story - Share your work, manage versions, and configure visibility.
- Monetization - Earn from your stories through reader subscriptions.
- HTML Export - Export your story as a standalone offline HTML file.
- Sharing Playthroughs - Let readers share their journey with public links.
- Forums - Build community discussion spaces and gather early access story feedback.
- Blog Posts - Write articles and send newsletters to your subscribers.
- Events - Participate in writing competitions and win badges.
Need Help?
- General Discussion - Join discussions with other writers.
- Bug Reports - To report issues.
- Support - Contact us directly (requires login).
- Discord - I’m on here most days if you want to chat.