Story City - Create & sell walkable adventures in your city

Hi Product Hunt 👋👋 Why go on a boring old walk when you can be a secret agent 🕵️? Have you ever read a story and wish you could be in it? Struggling with how to bring your city back to life post-pandemic? If so, we’re excited for you all to check out Story City! 🙃 ✨WHY THIS?✨ Our mission is to help creators build a career in the cities that they love, by telling stories you can live. Story City allows creators to make and sell stories, games, and real-life choose-your-adventures that only open when you’re standing in the right location. We created Story City for 3 reasons: 🧙‍♀️We wanted to actually be a part of a story rather than just being told it. We wanted to experience our own city, connect with friends, and do something more interesting than collecting Pokemon in a park. 🎭But we were non-technical creators - fiction writers, theatre-makers, musicians and filmmakers. Traditional AR/Animated creatures wasn’t really our jam. What was our version of interactive entertainment? What was our version of Pokemon Go but for film, books, music, theatre, tours? 🏙️Our cities are struggling, *hard*. How could we help creators, cities, businesses, festivals activate public space with technology in a way that was fun, relevant and long-running? Story City makes you the hero of your own story, not only giving you the chance to take part in adventures in cities across the world, but a way to easily create and sell these adventures without needing to know how to code or animate. Whether you’re an independent creator (*welcome* writers, theatre-makers, musicians filmmakers and more!) or an organisation (******hello****** cultural districts, community leagues and downtown revitalisation orgs), you can make interactive stories an adventurer can literally step into and live. 🌎EXPLORE WITH STORIES MADE BY YOU🌏 Once you make a story using our Creator Tools, each story unlocks at a particular start point and from there can either follow one path or branch off into dozens of different locations around the city (and which ones you visit will depend on the path you pick through the adventure). Our Creator Tools are accessible from any desktop webbrowser and are: 🎉 Free for creators to use: We only make money if you make money 👾 No-code: Just add in your chapters and link them together, drop your pins on the map, and load in your content like you would for a blog post 🤑 Monetisable: You can set your creations as free to drive foot traffic for city revitalisation or to augment events, or set a sale price to build an additional revenue stream as a creator, or perhaps fundraising for a good cause. 🪄 Updateable: Any changes or updates you make to your content after going live gets immediately pushed to the app 🌈 Full of Resources: We’ve got the resources you need to inspire you to make everything from a choose your adventure, to a fitness walk, to a scavenger hunt, with resources from videos to templates to weekly Twitch Streams. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction, a musical journey or scavenger hunt, all stories on Story City are made by creators - like YOU - who know their cities best. You don’t need to be tech-savvy. You can use the methods you already know and love to create with, and our Creator Tools do the rest! We can’t wait to hear your feedback, and see what you create! You can sign up for your free creator account here and start creating now: https://about.storycity.app/crea... And if you’re a curious adventurer, you can download the Story City App here (So far we have adventures in Western Canada and Australia): https://about.storycity.app/down... Warmly, Emily

Congrats on the launch this is a very cool idea After reading and going through it I realized how amazing it is But the website seems not to be responsive on my mobile device. I do not know why tho ..

Cool, Congrats Em & team on your launch!

Hello Product Hunt! I'm Brett Ludwig, CTO at Story City. I'm thrilled to share our latest achievement with you - the Story City Creator Tools. Developing these tools was quite the adventure in itself, filled with coding marathons, brainstorming sessions, and a fair share of head-scratching moments. But every challenge faced was an opportunity to learn and improve, pushing us towards a result we're incredibly proud of. These tools are a canvas for your creativity, an opportunity to bring your city and stories to life. Whether you're a seasoned storyteller or just starting your journey, these tools are for you. They're user-friendly, fun, and just waiting for your creativity to bring them to life. So, dive in and start creating - your stories have the power to move, entertain, and inspire. Can't wait to see the amazing stories you'll create. Let's get started! All the best, Brett Ludwig

This looks fun. Cool idea!

I like this idea. This can be used for tourists but also for locals. Congrats!

Great launch video - that put a smile on my face afternoon. Huge congrats to the team on today's launch. This is such a great way retell the stories of how you fell in love with a city. What inspired you to start this product?

The power of storytelling strikes again! This is such a unique concept, I'm excited to try it out myself. Congrats on the launch! 🥳

Hey Product Hunt! Justin here, Head of Product at Story City. Really looking forward to hearing your feedback on what works, what feels sticky, and what you’d like to see on the platform in the future! Some uses we’ve see so far from early users include: - Escape-room owners who want to expand their offerings in a cost effective way that doesn’t take up their real-estate - Non-Profits wanting to fundraise or tell the story of their impact - Business Improvement Districts wanting to get more foot-traffic past their businesses - Cities wanting to revitalize downtown cores or lead people to newly finished infrastructure and parks - Festivals wanting to augment physical experiences with more long-running digital ones that are available 24/7 during an event (and can exist beyond the event as marketing for the next year) - Game-writers or theatre makers who are non-technical but want to experiment - Creators who want to create interactive versions of their content (eg. podcasters who want to offer an ‘experience’ version of their episodes - think following Serial journalists through Baltimore during the first season! Or perhaps behind the scenes film tours, or literary tours of their book series) Some things we have in the pipeline for development over the next 12 months: - Analytics: so you know how many people move from view, to purchase, to completion - Unfurling Social Sharing and Deep linking: So people can easily spread the word about your experiences and you can link directly to you specific story via marketing collateral - Improved Searchability & Discovery: Making stories searchable by their tags and genres and cities - Push notifications: So users who played one of your previous experiences can discover your new releases - Universal Stories: The ability for creators to make a story that can be placed in any city using similar landmarks (a town hall, a park, a post office etc), and for an adventurer to place stories in cities that don’t have any bespoke experiences yet. I’ll be here answering questions so feel free to drop me a line! Cheers! Justin

That's just amazing! I already imagine this being the backbone of some future events Also, the intro video is top tier XD Congrats on the launch!