Create your own story: a Branching Story Editor

Abstract

Branching stories are challenging to write. We propose an interactive branching editor meant to ease their writing process. We interviewed experienced authors in creative story writing and studied existing similar tools in order to formulate the editor‟s requirements. The editor‟s design was an iterative process mainly focused on its user experience. We implemented a prototype interface for testing the final design. The conducted experiments concluded that the prototype is useful in organizing, correcting and polishing branching stories, although pen and paper is still preferred when first planning the general flow of the story. In the future works section we provide some suggestions on how to improve the editor.