Storyfall

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.

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