Interactive Fiction for the Classroom
Let students write their own choose-your-own-adventure stories. They'll practice writing, critical thinking, and seeing things from other perspectives - and they'll actually enjoy it.
Why Interactive Fiction in Education?
Writing a story with branching choices is surprisingly good at teaching skills that regular assignments don't quite cover.
Critical Thinking Through Choices
When students write branching stories, they have to think about what happens when a reader picks option A vs. option B. That cause-and-effect thinking is hard to teach with a regular essay.
Creative Writing Skills
Writing interactive stories means writing dialogue, descriptions, and multiple paths through a narrative. Students end up practicing composition without it feeling like a worksheet.
Seeing Other Perspectives
The character system lets students write from multiple viewpoints. They have to think about how different people would react to the same situation.
Students Actually Want to Do It
Interactive fiction is fun. Students get way more engaged when they're making choices in a story rather than just reading one.
Why Storyfall for Educators?
Everything students need to write and play interactive stories, with nothing to install and no accounts required.
Guest Access
Students can play stories without creating accounts. No sign-ups, no emails, no passwords to manage.
Visual Editor
Students write in a clean editor and manage scenes visually. No coding or technical skills needed.
Story Tree Visualization
A visual tree shows how scenes connect to each other, so students can see the whole branching structure of their story at a glance.
Built-in Spell Check
Spell check runs across the whole story, not just one scene at a time. Students can also add words to a custom dictionary.
Tutorial System
Built-in tutorials walk students through creating their first scene, adding choices, and building a complete branching story.
Free to Use
Everything is free. No subscriptions, no paywalls, no catch.
Story Templates
Pre-built templates give students a starting point so they're not staring at a blank page.
Built-in Translations
Students can manually translate their stories into 180+ languages — perfect for language classes. Also helps make stories accessible to classmates whose first language is not English with automated translations.
Multiplayer Mode
Play through a story as a class and vote on choices together in real-time. There's even a built-in chat for discussion.
Lesson Plan Ideas
Some assignment ideas you can adapt for your class. These work across different subjects and grade levels.
1. Choose Your Own History
Students research a historical event and write an interactive fiction story where readers make decisions as a historical figure. Each branch explores a different "what if" scenario grounded in historical fact.
2. Learning Empathy
Using the character system, students write a story that explores a conflict from multiple perspectives. Readers experience the same events through different characters' eyes.
3. Interactive Questionnaire
Students design personality quizzes or questionnaires using branching choices and variables to track responses. At the end, readers see personalized results based on their answers.
4. Collaborative Storytelling
Using the multiplayer mode, student groups collaborate on a single story. Each student writes assigned chapters or branches, then the class votes on which paths to explore together.
5. Language Immersion Story
Students write a short branching story in English, then use the built-in translation tools to produce a version in a target language they're studying. Reading an interactive story they wrote themselves reinforces vocabulary in context.
Bring Interactive Fiction to Your Classroom
Students can start writing or playing without creating an account. No cost, no setup, no hassle.