Guides
Interactive fiction, explained plainly
Short how-to pages for people new to branching stories. Each one is dated, so you can tell how current it is.
- Choose-your-own-adventure, visual novel or text adventure: which story are you writing? Your story has a moment where the reader decides something. Text adventures, choose-your-own-adventure stories and visual novels each ask something different of the writer. This guide helps you pick one. →
- Fountain for first-timers: the five marks you need to write a branching story You don't need to know screenplay formatting to write in Nightwriter. Five plain-text marks cover scenes, narration, who is speaking, how they say it, and the choices a reader makes. →