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Publishing & Sharing

Turn a story into a link others can play.

Publishing turns your story into a link anyone can open and play - without touching your live, editable story. It happens in two steps: freeze a snapshot, then publish a version of it. All of this lives on the story's Settings page.

Snapshots#

A snapshot is a frozen copy of your entire story - every beat, scene, character, and the blackboard - taken at the moment you create it. After creating a snapshot, you can continue editing your story without affecting it, so you can keep your live story evolving while testers play through a stable version. A story can hold up to 20 snapshots at once, shown newest first as cards with their creation date.

A snapshot isn't permanently locked: each card's menu has Update to current, which re-freezes it with your story's current state in place. Delete removes the snapshot along with every publication made from it, breaking their links.

Publishing a version#

Publishing takes a snapshot and turns it into a shareable link. Give it a label so you can tell versions apart later, pick a starting beat from that snapshot, and optionally override some variables to create the scenario you want, then confirm to get a link.

Publish snapshot dialog with a Label field and a Starting beat picker

There are two ways to publish: you can click Publish on a specific snapshot card to publish from that exact frozen state. or the Publish button at the top of the Settings page - it creates a new snapshot and publishes from it in one go - the fast path when you just want a link to your story as it is right now. Either way, one snapshot can carry up to 15 published versions, each with its own label, starting point, and overrides - handy for sending different testers into different parts of the same frozen story.

After publishing, you'll be able to Copy the URL of the version you've published. Each has its own Copy URL button. Deleting a publication will stop the link from working immediately.

A published link plays similarly to the Test, but without any of the debug annotations - just the story, reacting to whatever conditions and variables it was given.