Glossary
The words Living Stories uses.
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Story | A branching story in Living Stories. |
| Board | The view of the whole story: sequences, interactions, notes and links. |
| Sequence | A stretch of story that plays straight through. Holds scenes. |
| Start | The first sequence of a story. |
| Scene | A script and the canvas where you storyboard it. |
| Interaction | A moment where the audience chooses. Types: Poll, Text, Audio and Touch movement. |
| Outcome | One of an interaction's answers. Each leads to a sequence. |
| Branch | A decision made by rules, following an earlier interaction's answer. |
| Voting window | When an interaction is open on the audience's phones, set on the timeline. At most 60 seconds. |
| Canvas | A scene's workspace, with its Script node, nodes, notes and images. |
| Node | Generates images, video or audio from its words and inputs. |
| Wire | Connects a note, image or node into a node as an input. |
| Version | One generated or uploaded image, video or audio. |
| Out of date | A version whose inputs changed after it was made: its words, notes, wired images or Canon entries. Generate again to update it; the old version stays. |
| Shot | A stretch of a scene's timeline, with its area and lines on the canvas. |
| Timeline | What plays in a scene, in order. |
| Master timeline | One path through the whole story. |
| Canon | The story's characters, places and things. |
| Gallery | Every image and video in the story. |
| Draft, Production | The story's modes: cheap models for trying, the best models for the final look. |
| Budget | The most you or your organisation can spend on generating and asking Living Stories in a month. A request over it is refused. |
| Sketch | A quick view of the board for ideas. |
| Story agent | Living Stories acting in your story for you, through ⌘K. |
| Companion | The bar at the bottom of the screen. |
| Play | Plays the story; you pick each outcome. |
| Live | Plays the story to an audience that votes on their phones. |
| Session code | Identifies a live show. The audience app accepts it typed in, instead of scanning the QR code. |
| Theme | The colours of the audience's options, in order, on their phones and on screen. |
| Organisation | Owns stories that everyone in it can open, and can pay for generating. |
| Elastic time | In the Unreal plugin, a moment in a Level Sequence that waits, looping at normal speed, until a vote or event arrives. |
| Generative moment | Coming soon: a line written from the audience's answers and spoken during an Unreal live show. |