Netstory

A new generation of text adventures and interactive fiction.

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A new generation of text adventures and interactive fiction.

4 followers

A new way to experience and create interactive stories. Play through our example stories, where your decisions matter. Easy, no-code builder to create your story flows and decision trees. Publish once and play with any device.

Launch tags:Writing•User Experience•Indie Games

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Hey! So far so good, I'd say. Is there an user manual someplace? I know the basic functions are pretty easy, but some more advanced features are a little out of reach for me.

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6yr ago

Serviceform

Maker

@marco_valenti Great to hear! :) We are still working on our help guides and will make them available soon. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have to help navigate the platform. Was there something specific you found difficult? Would be great to hear, so I can make sure that they are all available through the help guides :)

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6yr ago

@iranthi_gomes Hey, thanks for your reply! Well, I was trying to see if the input the player is supposed to give at any "text question" can be stored into a variable, and how can I recall that later.

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6yr ago

Serviceform

Maker

@marco_valenti Yes it can be stored as a variable. Let's say in question number 1, you are using a 'Text question' type to ask for their name. Once the person inputs their name or other text you want them to, in another question (it can be any question type) you can use that text as a token via the question number. So for example; Question 1: What is your name? (Text question) Question 2: Great to meet you #question1 Hope this answers your question. Feel free to let me know if you have more. We are finalising the help docs and will be available soon.

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6yr ago

@iranthi_gomes It does, thanks a lot! If any more techical question arise I will let you know

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6yr ago

Serviceform

Maker

@marco_valenti Awesome! Look forward to seeing your story :)

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6yr ago

Awesome to see something like this. I always thought the IF scene could use a modernization. A note: I noticed some confusing text: Things like, "Unlimited characters. Use from 1 to 500 characters in your story," and, "Make stories of any length. Your story can be from 5 minutes to 100 hours long." Are there limits or aren't there? What are the exact limits? Also, what is the difference between the "Text adventure maker" and the "Interactive fiction creator," for instance?

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6yr ago

Serviceform

Maker

@davidgay Thanks for the comment. Currently there are no limits set in the software, only a limit in the sense that the builder starts to get confusing around 500 steps, also more than 50 characters starts to fill the builder's UI. We are working on a grouping/branching logic on the UI, which will fix these issues. For the last question, those are just keywords to bring different crowds together through SEO, did you see them elsewhere than in the footer? We see a lot of words referring to similar concepts. So there is only one "story maker".

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6yr ago

@joksanen Thanks for the clarification. The place I saw the differentiation between "text adventure maker" and other names was in the footer. (I often look at the footer on new products for a "Pricing" link.) Since there were multiple links to what looked like multiple products, I thought maybe the links were broken or wrong.

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6yr ago

Serviceform

Maker

@davidgay Yeah this is still a work in progress from the texts perspective. :) For pricing, we are keeping things free for at least six months, to improve the platform through feedback. Also not sure which side we can charge without affecting the creators. Currently the idea would be that creating is free, but premium stories would be maybe under some subscription that gets divided partly to creators.

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6yr ago

@joksanen I'm no expert in product monetization, but it might be worth looking into the pricing model that the app "Insight Timer" uses. Similar to how you described, creators can put out both free and paid content, and Insight Timer shares half of the income from paid content with the content creators.

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6yr ago

Serviceform

Maker

Hi everyone ✌️ Excited to launch our side project, which we've been working on during the lockdown. 📙Netstory is a new way of online storytelling. Netstory combines elements from video games such as traditional text adventures, visual novels, movies and books to create something unique. This project started from us using our chatbot building platform Serviceform, in a very different way and transformed the builder in a way that you can create stories with it. We also have integrations to AWS Polly, which allows you to use up to 60 different voices for automated voice acting. Netstory is for creatives and artists. We see a lot of great stories and art that is not seen by enough people. We created Netstory to bring storytellers and artists together to share stories in a new and interactive way. Readers can live and experience a whole new generation of text based adventures and interactive fiction. Create interactive stories with decisions. Bring out your imagination and creativity by creating stories for your readers to play and read the story as different characters and different pathways to go through in the story to allow readers to make various decisions to decide where their journey takes them. In the end, the readers could see the choices they have made. What are we looking for? 📝 Feedback on how to make the platform and the stories more engaging 🙋‍♀️ Artists and creators, who can create graphics, video and audio. 📝 Writers, who can write and publish stories using Netstory.io We would like to invite you all to create your stories and try the example ones out to see how it works. Let's create something entertaining and different together. We hope you enjoy it and look forward to seeing you bring out your creativity. Iranthi & Jarkko

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6yr ago

Hi Guys, the netstory is looking good! Liking the interactive story telling with media and the super clean interface. Gives focus to the content without distraction and let's you focus on living the story. I like the current sample content and especially the group chat story. For one thing, it really wanted me to see the next chapter of the chat and for another, it really shows how much potential the platform has in the creative hands. Definitely looking forward to what the creators and story tellers will do =)!

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6yr ago

Serviceform

Maker

@sandaru_ Thanks for the comment :) Me too. Creators are what we need now!

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6yr ago

Serviceform

Maker

Hi @peter_gaffney, apologies about that. There was a small big which is now fixed. If you go back and refresh, the builder will work fine.

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6yr ago