Hi, for a limited period of time you can get/use my CYOA Studio for free. It is a powerful tool for creating, styling, and exporting choice-based narrative games, interactive fiction, and interactive graphic novels. It runs entirely in your web browser, providing a complete workflow from writing your story to packaging a distributable ZIP file for itch.io.
Try it: https://tintwotin.itch.io/cyoa-studio
Demo game created with CYOA Studio: https://tintwotin.itch.io/the-commute
Features
- Visual Story Creation:
- A rich text editor for writing your narrative.
- Easily add, edit, and link choices between scenes.
- Integrated Generative AI Tools:
- Image Generation: Create and add unique artwork for your scenes directly within the editor.
- Text Processing: Use AI to rewrite or expand upon your story text.
- Interactive Story Map:
- A collapsible tree view provides a clear visualization of your story's branches.
- Status icons instantly show the start scene, dead ends, orphan scenes, and which scenes have images or audio.
- Safely rename scenes with automatic link updating across all choices.
- Search and filter your scenes to quickly find what you need.
- Live Player & Preview:
- Instantly playtest your game from the start or the current scene using the built-in player.
- Launch a full, clean preview of your project in a new browser tab at any time.
- Modern Player UI: The exported game features a clean, overlay-based UI with quick access to menu, sound toggle, and exit functions, ensuring an immersive experience.
- Integrated Asset Management:
- Select image and audio files from your computer using a file picker or by dragging and dropping them directly onto the input fields.
- The studio automatically copies them into your project folder on save, ensuring all asset paths are correct and ready for export.
- Powerful Style Editor:
- Customize the visual theme of your game, including layout, colors, fonts, padding, background images, and even global background music. Your custom style is saved with the project.
- Batch AI Processing:
- Automate image creation for all scenes that are missing one.
- Optionally use AI to automatically generate image prompts based on your scene's text.
- Globally add artistic suffixes (e.g., ", cinematic lighting, 4k") to all generated images.
- Includes tools to safely delete all image paths or all prompts from your project at once.
- One-Click Export:
- Export your complete, playable project as a self-contained
.zip
file. This bundle includes the game, your custom theme, and all required assets, ready to be shared or hosted. - The exported game is optimized for both desktop and mobile browsers.
- Export specific data, such as all AI image prompts, to a structured
.json
file for analysis or external use.
- Export your complete, playable project as a self-contained
- Single-File, Zero Installation:
- The entire studio is a single
.html
file. It runs directly in your browser with no installation, servers, or dependencies required.
- The entire studio is a single
- Local-First Project Management:
- Works directly with folders on your computer via the File System Access API. Your project, including the story file and all assets, is saved locally, not in the cloud. The app tracks unsaved changes to prevent data loss.