Living Stories
Write branching stories, storyboard them, and play them to a live audience that votes on their phones.
Living Stories is a browser tool for interactive, branching stories. You write the story, build each scene from images, video and audio, test every path, and present it to a room. At each interaction the audience answers on their phones, and the answer picks the path.
These pages describe Living Stories 0.2, at portal.livingstorieslab.com. For the previous version, the Story Portal, see Living Stories 0.1.
How a story is made
- Write. Lay out the story on the board as sequences, and add interactions where the audience decides. Write each scene as a script.
- Build. Each scene has a canvas. Nodes on it generate images, video and audio from your words and references. The scene's timeline sets what plays.
- Test. Play the story and pick each outcome yourself.
- Present. Go live. The audience scans a QR code and votes on their phones.
You can also take a story into Unreal Engine with the Living Stories plugin.