This document gathers a list of ideas and tips to help you make better stories based on other creators’ past experience.

Type of choices

We identified 3 types of choice:

• Minor: these choices offer additional/optional information to give more context to the player, but have no impact on the stories
• Medium: these choices will lead to different narrative branches to offer different perspectives of a story.
• Strong: These choices will have a strong impact on the player's adventure and lead to different endings. In the case of a series, these choices could also impact future episodes

We recommend alternating between these 3 types of choices.

Sequence

We identified 4 types of sequence:

• Exploration: progressing between different scenes
  • Exploration sequences can be achieved with hotspot (optionally horizontal images)
• Inspection: inspecting a specific scene to find information, collect items..
  • Inspection sequences can be achieved by using recycle + hotspot (optionally a unique option)
• Dialogue:
  • Dialogue sequences can be achieved by using recycle and character generation
• Puzzle:
  • Puzzle sequences can be achieved by using hotspots and locks

We recommend alternating between these 4 types of sequences to provide a more interactive experience to the player.

Description

Description is an optional field that you don’t have to write on all paths necessarily.

It can be good to leave it empty sometimes to improve the flow of the story, especially when the player is exploring. If you need to add details to a scene, you can always do it using hotspots, making it a choice of the player.

Locks