Interactive stories and games

Start with a novel you own or are authorized to adapt, then choose a bounded experience in which a player can act and see a consequence.

Start with what the player can change, and put choices only there. Make an important decision’s trade-off understandable, then write a response that preserves…

Use recurring actions, rules and costs to compare puzzles, management and interactive narrative. See three original designs and a fill-in concept card.

Calculate energy, sampling, and return costs in a rover level, then fix accidental dead ends and dominant solutions while preserving clear choices.

Define player goals, actions, world rules, state changes, and readable feedback, then test the loop with a complete Paper City path.

Plan level pacing with entry states, new decisions, visible responses, and end markers; recombine learned rules instead of adding enemies and puzzles.

Design feedback around pre-action conditions, input responses, state changes, outcomes, and next steps, with an original mechanical post office example.

Distinguish hard failure, soft failure, and weaker outcomes. Define what is lost or preserved, where play resumes, and the state restored on restart.

Use a compact turn card to connect current facts, player action, conditions, actual change, and narration without inventing success.

Adapt one novel scene into an AI text adventure. Preserve source facts, define the player’s goal and choices, and test one path before expanding.

Track approved game lines by ID, speaker, trigger, subtitle, source, output, and fallback; check pronunciation, skip, mute, missing audio, and restart.

Tie endings to a small set of tracked decisions, make each outcome resolve the central promise, and show the cost of the chosen route.

Plan the common route, define what opens each character route, and write dialogue with clear speaker, scene, and choice state.

Give each quest a player-readable goal, a reason to act, meaningful steps, and a reward that changes future options.

Keep lines tied to character goals and game state, avoid narrating visible actions, and test dialogue in the actual interaction.

Use object placement, damage, access, and repeated locations to show what happened and what players can infer.

Test whether players understand the game's goals, source identity, choices, and story feedback without relying on your explanation.

Choose a branch structure and preserve consequences at shared scenes. Includes an original investigation map, state variants and a practical content budget.

Define how trust and promises alter behavior before adding affinity scores. Includes concrete states, threshold checks and responses beyond repeated gifts.

Test knowledge, choices and consequences in one complete scene before expansion. Includes an original scope, contrasting play paths and local failure diagnosis.

Define what randomness changes while preserving readable choices and consequences. Includes an original ferry game, dead-end checks and seeded comparisons.

Separate current state from event history and preserve promises, knowledge and delayed consequences. Includes an original festival save table and reload checks.

Give NPCs desires, leverage, knowledge and active responses, with depth matched to their role. Includes an original vendor who does more than wait for clicks.

Separate evidence, supported conclusions and uncertain explanations. Includes an original ticket mystery with observation, questions and earned reveals.