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What are Influences?

Definition​

Influences are interaction moments in your story that can happen within your scenes & sequences. Unlike Interaction Moments, influences do not need create fork in the road moments in your story while still providing you the opportunity to get input from the audience.

You can use influences to:

  • Tutorial: Show audiences how your story interactions work at the start of your story.
  • Personalize Content: Get audience input to modify some aspect your story world and characters, live.
  • Track State: Create an interaction moment and store the result for changes in the story that happen later.
  • Create Variables: To store state of items and and characters for later in the story.

How To Create Influences​

Creating influences is the process of selecting text in your scenes and linking it to interactions, making that moment dynamic and responsive to audience input. You can create new influences in any scene in your story by going to the text editor and then:

  • Selecting text in a scene
  • Press the Pink Flag button on the left hand side
  • Give your influence a variable name to store results
  • Choose your interaction type and information

Influences track values from audience interactions, stores user responses, update as story progresses and make these available throughout story.

See Interactions page for more.

Use Cases​

Personalization​

  • Use Audience data throughout story
  • Reference previous choices
  • Acknowledge audience actions
  • Create personalized experience

Dynamic Content​

  • Different dialogue based on choices
  • Adapt narrative to audience path
  • Conditional scene content
  • Responsive storytelling